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 |
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| Director | Harold French |
| Genres | Drama |
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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 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 |
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| Director | Harold French |
| Studio | METRODOME |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 17 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 17 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1952 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 12 Jul 2010 To Rent: DVD: 02 Jun 2008 |
| Watch now | Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant. Subscribe. |
Rains is perfectly cast as Simenon's mousy Dutch shipping clerk, Kees Popinga, outraged to find, after meticulously... read more on Time Out
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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 ... read more »
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