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Promises Promises...

1982 · 23 min

A quiet, procedural slice of railway life where small mishaps snowball, watched with mild suspense and a wry, instructional patience.

Directed by
Richard Tambling
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.
How it feels
Earnest and light. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Work, fate
Content
No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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Directed by
Richard Tambling
Genres
Documentary
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Richard Tambling
Written by
Richard Tambling
Cinematography
Maurice Picot
Runtime
23 min
Country
United Kingdom

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