Article: CRITICS' CHOICE.(Features)

Article: Television: All aboard for fairy-tale England Film of the week: ...
The Independent on Sunday;  April 25, 2004 ;     664 words ... ... misty-eyed vision of rural England portrayed in The Titfield Thunderbolt, an Ealing comedy from 1953 directed by Charles Crichton ... over coldly sober avarice. It must be admitted that The Titfield Thunderbolt lacks the satirical bite and comic invention of other ...

Article: Ealing Comedy is squealing off track; The Titfield ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 31, 2005 ;     473 words ...Byline: FIONA MOUNTFORD OF all the films that merit a second life on the stage, The Titfield Thunderbolt surely comes near the bottom of the list. One of the least amusing of the Ealing Comedies, it involves much shunting of heavy ...

Article: Comment: Is there any more to Englishness than the ...
The Independent - London;  April 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Heffer's England, Hefferland, is the England of Ealing studios and, most particularly, the England of The Titfield Thunderbolt (the film where villagers press an antique locomotive into action so as to defeat the machinations of both Whitehall ...

Article: THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT, Belgrade Theatre, Until ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  September 20, 2005 ;     469 words ...Byline: ALAN HARRIS THIS play of the 1953 Ealing comedy comes to the Belgrade with a warmth and amiable charm of a bygone era. When a small rail branch line is threatened with closure under the newly nationalised British Rail, a group of villagers band together to run it themselves, in the face of

Article: CRITICS' CHOICE; TV previews by SOPHIE HEATH.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: SOPHIE HEATH FILM: SPARTACUS, 2.50pm, ITV1 A MASTERPIECE of expository writing from Dalton Trumbo, the banned writerbrought in by producer ...

Article: First class return to Titfield; TRAVELMAIL Simon Heptinstall ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... pedantic bureaucrats from London. The Titfield Thunderbolt, one of the greatest of the British ... The Somerset countryside where The Titfield Thunderbolt was filmed is little changed since ... researched book, On The Trail Of The Titfield Thunderbolt, and an Ordnance Survey map to ...

Article: Fantasy holidays with Ivanhoe & Co
The Independent - London;  February 25, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Somerset border is where they shot The Titfield Thunderbolt 30 years ago, and there's a pub ... Dunkerton which has renamed itself "The Titfield Thunderbolt" and people still come to nose ... book called The Shooting of the Titfield Thunderbolt along the lines of The Making of ...