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The Runaway Bus

Go on, laugh... And the best of luck!

6.2(13)19531h 13m1

When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • airport
  • bus
  • fog
  • caper comedy

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Val Guest

Writers

Val Guest

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR23 Oct 1954
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalULondon16 Feb 1953

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The Runaway Bus was released on 16 February 1953.

Audience reviews

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  • C

    CinemaSerf

    3/27/2022

    6/10

    It must have been terrible to have to share a stage/screen with Margaret Rutherford. She only had to look at the camera and she had already stolen the scene - a consummate comedy actress whom, alongside Frankie Howerd, keeps this rather daft crime caper bubbling along quite nicely for 75 minutes. A pea-soup fog has delayed all the flights from London's Heathrow Airport - as was it's wont back then - and so a motley c…

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