A 30-minute time bomb of desire and dismissal on a London bus route.
A white bus conductress is attracted by one of her regular passengers, a black serviceman, but then tires of him.
Acting
Ruth D'Arcy's Marlene: charming, then chillingly indifferent.
Direction
Andrews squeezes an opera of rejection into a bus canteen.
Director
David Andrews
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'British New Wave' but rarely screened; too uncomfortable for the 'angry young men' canon.
The bus itself is a character—public space forcing intimacy, then ejecting passengers into separate fates.
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