The Ghost Train
1941 | 85m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Walter Forde |
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| Writer: | J.O.C. Orton, Arnold Ridley, Val Guest, Marriott Edgar |
| Staring: |
| Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. | |
| Release Date: | May 05, 1941 |
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| Director: | Walter Forde |
| Writer: | J.O.C. Orton, Arnold Ridley, Val Guest, Marriott Edgar |
| Genres: | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | world war ii, comedian, lovers, cornwall, england, stranded, based on play or musical, train crash, rural area, train, storm, drunk, ghost story, ghost, tunnel, waiting room, engaged couple, rationing, passengers, ticket office, train carriage |
| Production Companies | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Arthur Askey | Tommy Gander |
| Richard Murdoch | Teddy Deakin |
| Kathleen Harrison | Miss Bourne |
| Peter Murray-Hill | Richard G. Winthrop |
| Carole Lynne | Jackie Winthrop |
| Morland Graham | Dr. Sterling |
| Betty Jardine | Edna Hopkins |
| Stuart Latham | Herbert Perkins |
| Herbert Lomas | Saul Hodgkin |
| Raymond Huntley | John Price |
| Linden Travers | Julia Price |
| D.J. Williams | Ben Isaacs |
| Wallace Bosco | Ted Holmes |
| George Merritt | Inspector |
| Sidney Monckton | Train Guard |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Walter Forde | Director |
| J.O.C. Orton | Writer |
| Arnold Ridley | Writer |
| Val Guest | Writer |
| Hal Britten | Assistant Camera |
| Marriott Edgar | Writer |
| Walter Goehr | Music |
| Jack E. Cox | Director of Photography |
| Alex Vetchinsky | Art Direction |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Edward Black | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 5 |
| 2024 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 4 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7 | 21 | 3 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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A storm causes a disparate group of passengers to become stranded overnight at a rural railway station. Before the superstitious station master leaves them for the night, he regales them with a tale of a phantom train that reputedly travels the adjacent closed line at night. He returns shortly after ... wards, dies of shock - and we get treated to a rather theatrical mystery as they investigate what's going on... Kathleen Harrison is quite good as the dipsomaniac "Miss Bourne" as is Raymond Huntley as "Price" but the rest of the cast struggle to eclipse the domineering performance of the film's star Arthur Askey who, frankly, annoys his fellow travellers and the audience in equal measure. I suspect that those who enjoy this film will be fans of his Vaudevillian style of comedy; I'm afraid it doesn't much work for me and what could have been a fun little ghost story ended up being quite disappointing.