The Ghost Train (1931 film)

The Ghost Train
The Ghost Train
	The film's main characters in the station's waiting room
Directed by	Walter Forde
Written by	Lajos Bíró; Angus MacPhail; Sidney Gilliat
Based on	The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley
Produced by	Michael Balcon ; Phil C. Samuel
Starring	Jack Hulbert; Cicely Courtneidge; Ann Todd; Cyril Raymond
Cinematography	Leslie Rowson
Edited by	Ian Dalrymple
Production; company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date	4 January 1932;
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd.^[1] It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction was by Walter Murton.

Thought to have been lost for some years, parts of the film (5 reels of images with 2 reels of sound) were recovered in a very decomposed state. It was part of the British Film Institute campaign in 1992 to locate missing movies.^[2]

Cast

Jack Hulbert as Teddy Deakin
Cicely Courtneidge as Miss Bourne
Ann Todd as Peggy Murdock
Cyril Raymond as Richard Winthrop
Allan Jeayes as Dr. Sterling
Donald Calthrop as Saul Hodgkin
Angela Baddeley as Julia Price
Henry Caine as Herbert Price
Tracy Holmes as Charles Bryant
Carol Coomb as Elsie Bryant

References

^ "The Ghost Train: Detail View". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.
^ Botting, Jo. "Lost Then Found". British Film Institute Screenonline. Retrieved 22 February 2013.

External links

The Ghost Train at IMDb

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[1] "The Ghost Train: Detail View". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009.

[2] Botting, Jo. "Lost Then Found". British Film Institute Screenonline. Retrieved 22 February 2013.

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