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The Ghost Train

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5.9/10 • 32

1941-05-051h 25m

ComedyHorrorMysteryThriller

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.

Directors
Walter Forde
Writters
J.O.C. Orton, Val Guest, Arnold Ridley, Marriott Edgar

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Arthur Askey

    Arthur Askey

    Tommy Gander

  2. Richard Murdoch

    Richard Murdoch

    Teddy Deakin

  3. Kathleen Harrison

    Kathleen Harrison

    Miss Bourne

  4. Peter Murray-Hill

    Peter Murray-Hill

    Richard G. Winthrop

  5. Carole Lynne

    Carole Lynne

    Jackie Winthrop

  6. Morland Graham

    Morland Graham

    Dr. Sterling

  7. Betty Jardine

    Betty Jardine

    Edna Hopkins

  8. Stuart Latham

    Stuart Latham

    Herbert Perkins

  9. Herbert Lomas

    Herbert Lomas

    Saul Hodgkin

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CinemaSerf

Jun 25, 2022

5/10

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 afterwards, 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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
world war iicomedianloversbased on play or musicalcornwall, englandtrain crashstrandedrural areatrainstormdrunkghost storyghosttunnelwaiting roomengaged couplerationingpassengersticket officetrain carriage