It’s actually a question about one disaster movie. I’m trying to remember a black-and-white film about a bomb on a London bus. It was pretty much a forerunner to all those big star-studded epics of the 1970s, eg Airport, where you’d get all the individual backstories coming together for the big disaster payoff. Indeed, in this film the bomb going off was pretty much where it ended.
Does this jog any memories? I’ve Googled but to no avail.
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The 1936 Hitchcock film ‘Sabotage’ has a bomb on a London bus. Might be it?
Crikey. I wonder if it’s that. Have you seen it? Does it have the structure I’m describing?
There’s a clip of Sabotage on Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – Spies. It’s towards the end of the programme. May jog your memory.
Thank you! I’ve found it on Amazon and am watching it now. Bit early to tell but I don’t think it’s the right one. I think I’ll know for certain when the bomb goes off as I have quite a vivd memory of that particular bit.
No, not the one I’m thinking of.
Beginning to wonder if I’ve simply misremembered.
Definitely the one mentioned in Mark Kermode’s series is black and white and has a bomb on a bus – I wouldn’t have remembered the title but I’m sure the previous answers are correct with Sabotage. I’d never heard of it, but the scene on the bus is shocking (I won’t say more as it would be a spoiler).
I guess that trope (to use a Kermode word) could have been reused elsewhere.
Could it be ‘Seven Days To Noon”? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_Noon
Thanks, Jazzjet, but it’s not that one.
Nor is it Sabotage, which I watched last night, although the bomb-going-off bit was sort of familiar.
Having done an awful lot of Googling in the meantime, I’ve come to the awkward conclusion that I’ve simply conflated / misremembered / invented something that doesn’t actually exist. Doh.
Any chance we’re half-remembering a Doomwatch episode?
Although I couldn’t find a specific mention of a bus being blown up, when I Googled “black & white British movie + London bus explosion” ‘The Day the Earth Caught Fire’ came up. Could it be that?