The Flying Scot

This is British low-budget crime cinema at its very best.

  • Director

    Compton Bennett

  • With

    Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford

  • UK 1957. 71min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

A masterclass in turning an £18,000 B-movie into great cinema, The Flying Scot opens with a famous 13-minute silent heist sequence aboard the Edinburgh-to-London sleeper. Featuring director Bennett’s familiar triangle of a muscular stud, a blonde, and a older, troubled man – here teamed up to rob the titular train – this is a journey of sweat, ulcer pain and unrelenting suspense.

+ The Stranger Left No Card

UK 1952. Director Wendy Toye. 23min. Digital 4K (restoration). PG

Tale of a seemingly harmless magician with dark intentions that Jean Cocteau described as a ‘little, diabolical film’.