The Ghost Train

Overview:

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.

Director:

Walter Forde

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

world war ii
comedian
lovers
based on play or musical
cornwall, england
train crash
stranded
rural area
train
storm
drunk
ghost story
ghost
tunnel
waiting room
engaged couple
rationing
passengers
ticket office
train carriage

Cast

Arthur Askey

~ as ~

Tommy Gander

Richard Murdoch

~ as ~

Teddy Deakin

Kathleen Harrison

~ as ~

Miss Bourne

Peter Murray-Hill

~ as ~

Richard G. Winthrop

Carole Lynne

~ as ~

Jackie Winthrop

Morland Graham

~ as ~

Dr. Sterling

Betty Jardine

~ as ~

Edna Hopkins

Stuart Latham

~ as ~

Herbert Perkins

Herbert Lomas

~ as ~

Saul Hodgkin

Raymond Huntley

~ as ~

John Price

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
5
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.