Blu-ray Release: The Titfield Thunderbolt & Passport to Pimlico

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: Dec. 31, 2019
Price: Blu-ray (Titfield)$24.90, Blu-ray (Passport)$29.60
Studio: Film Movement

Film Movement serves up a pair of British classics for the first time on Blu-ray in North America: The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) and Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Directed by Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda, The Lavender Hill Mob), The Titfield Thunderbolt tells the story of the inhabitants of the tiny village of Titfield, who endeavor to prove that their single-track railway is a vital form of transportation.

Film Movement’s digitally restored Blu-ray edition includes the following:

  • Featurette: “Making the Titfield Thunderbolt”
  • Featurette: “The Lion Locomotive”
  • Featurette: Locations
  • Home Movie Footage from Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe
  • Slocombe on Charles Crichton audio interview
  • Original trailer
  • Archival stills gallery

In the post-WWII comedy Passport to Pimlico, the sleepy titular British district is enduring the worst heatwave in years…until London’s last unexploded WWII-era bomb goes off with a deafening roar, flinging its citizens headlong into a fantastic adventure. Thie Ealing Studio comedy is directed by Henry Cornelius (The Galloping Major) and written by T.E.B. Clarke.

The digitally restored Blu-ray edition of Passport includes the following stuff:

  • Interview with BFI Curator Mark Duguid
  • Locations Featurette with Film Historian Richard Dacre
  • Restoration Comparison
  • Stills Gallery
Buy or Rent The Titfield Thunderbolt & Passport to Pimlico

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.