Director: Val Guest
Release Date: February 1954
In his autobiography, So You Want to Be in Pictures (2001), Val Guest recalled that ‘I sat down and wrote a lightweight comedy-thriller called The Runaway Bus, about a British European Airways bus driver, Frankie, who gets lost in a fog with a coachload of passengers, some of whom are up to no good. I persuaded Margaret Rutherford to be in it and agree to top billing and somehow was able to get the whole project off the ground so that just over a month later we were actually shooting at London Airport.’
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A view of Broadcasting House, Langham Place, is used to introduce weather reports, concerning foggy conditions, which are read by Frank Phillips.
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A fogbound Control Tower at London Airport.
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The interior of the Control Tower at London Airport.
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Presumably another fogbound aspect of London Airport.
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Is this really London Airport or is it a studio set?
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Anthony Oliver walking through London Airport, or is it a studio set?