Train of Events

A train disaster is told through four separate short stories. Each story follows a different person caught up in it. What kind of life someone comes from decides how the disaster will affect them. The film looks less at the event itself than at the lives that came before it. What the passengers and the staff do afterwards is inside the account as well. Three directors shared the four parts between them. It comes from the tradition of the portmanteau film in British cinema of 1949. The eighty eight minutes are divided among four stories. Jack Warner and Valerie Hobson appear in the British film by Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton and Basil Dearden, completed in 1949.