A bank clerk dodges his bus fare. But this small act soon ripples through many lives - at times with catastrophic consequences.A bank clerk dodges his bus fare. But this small act soon ripples through many lives - at times with catastrophic consequences.A bank clerk dodges his bus fare. But this small act soon ripples through many lives - at times with catastrophic consequences.
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- TriviaOpening credits: All characters and events in this film are fictitious and any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
- GoofsStockman is in court having been framed as a fare dodger. The magistrate says to him, "You have heard the conductor identify you as the passenger in question", but weeks later, the man who had actually dodged the fare is in the bus queue. The conductor instantly recognises him and calls out, "You, hey you! I've been wanting to see you for a long time." If he recognised him weeks later, then surely he would not have wrongly identified Stockman soon after the fare-dodging incident.
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If producer Peter Rogers hadn't already just used it for one of the thrillers he and director Gerald Thomas made before they hit paydirt with the 'Carry Ons' (at least three actors who featured in the early 'Carry Ons' - Frank Forsyth, Cyril Chamberlain & Anthony Sagar - appear within the first ten minutes of this film), 'The Vicious Circle' would have been a more suitable title for this diverting little drama which resembles a less bleak version of 'On the Night of the Fire' and 'Very Bad Things', in which events spiral outwards in unforeseen ways like ripples rather than form a simple chain.
Although buses no longer have conductors, a remarkable amount of the film has proved remarkably unchanged, notably the arguments that still break out when someone hasn't paid their fare on a bus, and the amoral opportunism of tabloid journalists when they sniff a juicy story...
Although buses no longer have conductors, a remarkable amount of the film has proved remarkably unchanged, notably the arguments that still break out when someone hasn't paid their fare on a bus, and the amoral opportunism of tabloid journalists when they sniff a juicy story...
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- Beaconsfield Film Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(studio: made at Beaconsfield Studios England)
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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