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''The Wrecker'' is a British play, written in 1924 by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale, and filmed in 1928-29.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Wrecker (1929) )〕 Much later Ridley played Private Godfrey in ''Dad's Army''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dad's Army (1971) - BFI )〕 The play is about an old engine driver who thinks his engine is malevolent and self-aware. The finale is a huge train wreck using elaborate stage special-effects as per ''The Ghost Train,'' an earlier and more famous play by Ridley. The play ran for 165 performances at St. Martin's Lane Theatre. The play was adapted as a film under the same title released in 1929.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Wrecker (1929) - - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie )〕 It featured a spectacular crash between a passenger train and a Foden steam lorry stuck on a level crossing. The scene was filmed at on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, in one take, and destroyed both the steam wagon and the SECR F1 Class locomotive. ==See also== *''The Ghost Train,'' the earlier 1923 play by Arnold Ridley * "You Drive," a 1964 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' *''My Mother the Car,'' a 1965 television sitcom series about a man whose mother has been reincarnated as a dilapidated "1928 Porter touring car" *''The Love Bug,'' a 1968 comedy film about an anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle *''Killdozer!,'' a 1974 made-for-TV horror movie based on a short story by Theodore Sturgeon of the same name *''The Car,'' a 1977 film about an anthropomorphic customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III *''The Hearse,'' a 1980 horror movie about a possessed hearse *''Christine,'' a 1983 novel by Stephen King about an anthropomorphic 1958 Plymouth Fury *''Christine,'' the 1983 horror film based on the King novel *Nightmares,'' a 1983 movie made up of four separate story segments; the third segment, "The Benediction", stars Lance Henriksen who plays a traveling priest attacked on the highway by a demonic 4x4 *''Maximum Overdrive,'' a 1986 horror movie; and ''Trucks,'' a 1997 made-for-TV remake film; both based on the short story ''Trucks'' by Stephen King *''The Wraith,'' a 1986 film starring Charlie Sheen who plays a man murdered by a gang of car thieves who gets revenge upon his killers by returning as a phantom car and driver set out to eliminate them *''From a Buick 8,'' a 2002 novel by Stephen King about a deadly 1954 Buick Roadmaster *''Phantom Racer,'' a 2009 SyFy movie about a possessed race car 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wrecker (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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