It skips along nicely and engagingly for eighty minutes with a solid contribution from the usually reliable Noel Purcell and a soupçon of glamour from the underused Beatrice Campbell too. Maybe not his "latest and greatest screen role" as it said in the publicity blurb, but it's not a bad vehicle for a star who does enough here to keep it interesting, if not exactly intriguing with what must have been a fairly limited budget. A solid thriller, directed by George Minter, in which we watch the authorities try to catch the killer, knowing "whodunnit". After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Grand National Night is a 1953 British thriller film brought to the screen by George Minter, produced by Phil C.

The viewer understands that Nigel, whilst not happy, has tried to make his marriage work, but his wife's alcoholism and reckless behaviour has left him exasperated with her.Babs has already been banned from driving for 10 years, because she killed a man whilst she was driving under the influence.

In 1953 it was made into a British film of the same title starring Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister and Beatrice Campbell. The film was based on Campbell and Dorothy Christie’s 1945 play, which was also presented as a BBC Radio serial in 1946. The horses are splendid, and there are quite a few 'hold-your-breath' moments when various characters take some pretty scary fences.she insists on taking his pregnant mare out for a ride, which eventually causes the horse to go into labour prematurely. The ‘train’ seems to be that which appeared in A Run For Your Money and Stop Press Girl (both 1949) showing what is thought to be a GWR ‘Castle’ but it turns into a model! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Read all After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed.

It is also rather confusing in the fact that the train that comes to a halt is a Southern Region 4 SUB EMU, yet Nigel Patrick then jumps down to track level from a GWR coach! noel purcell and beatrice campbell do some sterling support and colin gordon is the wonderfully name buns darling.