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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By Details

1952 Certificate PG Certificate PG (TBC)
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Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had looked on impassively as the trains to the .. Read more

Starring Herbert Lom, Lucie Mannheim, Claude Rains, Marius Goring
Director Harold French
Genres Drama

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had looked on impassively as the trains to the outside world swept by; now he catches the first train he can to Amsterdam. Not long after that, he commits murder.

Starring Herbert Lom, Lucie Mannheim, Claude Rains, Marius Goring, Marta Toren, Ferdy Mayne
Director Harold French
Studio METRODOME
Run time DVD: 1 hr 17 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 17 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate PG, Watch Online: Certificate PG (TBC)
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Released DVD: 02 Jun 2008
Watch now: 01 Jun 2009
Production year: 1952
Watch now £2.49
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (2) of The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

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  • Rains is perfectly cast as Simenon's mousy Dutch shipping clerk, Kees Popinga, outraged to find, after meticulously... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • Rains is perfectly cast

    • Time Out
    • Posted 15 May 2008

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  • Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Do not bother

    The film is based on a book written by Georges Simenon in 1938: L'homme qui regardait les trains passer'. The book is superb and shows how an ordinary and law abiding citizen can suddenly change dramatically. Unfortunately, the film script is only loosely based on the book and many important parts have been left out and also changed. Do not bother watching this film. However, the book is worth reading.

      • MadViking from Dorchester
      • Posted 25 Jul 2009 08:05

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      • Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his ...