The Ghost Train - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

The Ghost Train. Image shows left to right: Train Guard (Sidney Monckton), Tommy Gander (Arthur Askey)

Genre

Film

Released

1942

Creator

Arnold Ridley

Stars

Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Carole Lynne, Morland Graham, Betty Jardine, Stuart Latham and more

Writers

Val Guest, Marriott Edgar, Sidney Gilliat and J.O.C. Orton

Director

Walter Forde

Producer

Edward Black

Company

A varied group of passengers heading through Cornwall by rail find themselves stranded at a remote junction station overnight, their delayed train having missed the final connection of the day to complete their onward journey. Amongst them is a blonde beauty, Jackie, and her retired sportsman partner, R.G.; comedian Tommy Gander; a heavy-drinking doctor; an elderly woman visiting relatives; and a couple due to be married the next day.

Horrified at the realisation the next train is more than nine hours away, the group seek a little comfort inside the station building, but the station master is soon trying to hurry them out so he can lock up for the night. Initially only too happy to find more becoming lodgings, they baulk at the discovery that the nearest village is some four miles away - and, typically, a storm has just set in, with howling winds and lashing rain.

Refusing to budge, the master gives them one last thought of warning before he departs: tale of a ghost train and the station's haunting. For some forty-three years ago an express hurtled through down the line, only to meet its watery doom at a nearby swing-bridge, left open when the man who was supposed to close it collapsed and died before completing his crucial task.

And it just so happens that the fearsome disaster happened on that very night...

Additional details

UK certificate

U

Duration

85 minutes

Produced

Late 1941

Distributors

Gaumont-British

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Black and white

Broadcast details

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