The Iron Maiden
Comedy
It's a Train and a Comedy!
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
1963-06-07
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Cast
Director
Gerald Thomas
Michael Craig as Jack Hopkins
Anne Helm as Kathy Fisher
Jeff Donnell as Miriam Fisher
Alan Hale Jr. as Paul Fisher
Noel Purcell as Admiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
Cecil Parker as Sir Giles Thompson
Roland Culver as Lord Upshott
Joan Sims as Nellie Trotter
John Standing as Humphrey Gore-Brown
Brian Oulton as Vicar
Sam Kydd as Fred Trotter
Judith Furse as Mrs. Webb
Richard Thorp as Harry Markham
Jim Dale as Bill
George Woodbridge as Sid Ludge
Ian Wilson as Sidney Webb
Douglas Ives as Charlie
Peter Burton as Thompson's Salesman
Michael Nightingale as Senior Rally Steward
Cyril Chamberlain as Mrs. Webb's Teammate
Anton Rodgers as Concierge
Tom Gill as Rally Steward
Anthony Baird
Peter Byrne as Race Starter
Jonathan Kydd as Fred's Son
Pat Ryan as Rally Steward (uncredited)