A very brief old film, at only 1 hour 20 minutes long. Even so, I still felt there was around 10 minutes of padding. At the end my initial thought was "is that it?" as it does feel quite a pointless film.
The film opens up with lovely countryside shots full of beautiful colours and looks really nice. I suppose, even though towards the end it did feel like it was being padded out a bit, the film dives in to the storyline and moves along at a good pace generally.
Stanley Holloway's portrayal of the local well-to-do philanthropist is very entertaining and he by far has the best lines and gives the best performance. Other than that there's not really much to it. The occasional use of blue screen technology is, as you can imagine, not great.
There's no real drama in the plot as there's never really any dilemma for anyone to deal with - whenever something goes wrong with the train, hordes of the locals appear from out of nowhere, help remedy the problem then disappear again. They literally do appear out of nowhere. More than once the train breaks down in the middle of fields miles away from anywhere and from out of the trees and bushes appears the townsfolk to lend a hand then disappear again when not needed - very bizarre!
The film opens up with lovely countryside shots full of beautiful colours and looks really nice. I suppose, even though towards the end it did feel like it was being padded out a bit, the film dives in to the storyline and moves along at a good pace generally.
Stanley Holloway's portrayal of the local well-to-do philanthropist is very entertaining and he by far has the best lines and gives the best performance. Other than that there's not really much to it. The occasional use of blue screen technology is, as you can imagine, not great.
There's no real drama in the plot as there's never really any dilemma for anyone to deal with - whenever something goes wrong with the train, hordes of the locals appear from out of nowhere, help remedy the problem then disappear again. They literally do appear out of nowhere. More than once the train breaks down in the middle of fields miles away from anywhere and from out of the trees and bushes appears the townsfolk to lend a hand then disappear again when not needed - very bizarre!