Movie: A Hundred Years Underground

Top 4 Billed Cast

John Rowdon
John Rowdon

Self - Narrator (voice)

Herbert Morrison
Herbert Morrison

Self

John Betjeman
John Betjeman

Self

Henry Moor
Henry Moor

Self

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    A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak alongside some excellent archive film.

  • Release Date

    1963-10-12

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    7

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    3.5 starts
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    English
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