The Ghost Train (1931 film)

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 (1932-01-04)
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. 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 (five reels of images with two 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.

In a feature about him in the January 1994 edition of Empire magazine, it was revealed that Bob Monkhouse had an intact copy of the full film, but this, along with other irreplaceable material, was seized by the police when he was arrested for conspiracy to import feature films belonging to major film companies. Although the charges were dropped, the film had been incinerated.

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

External links

• The Ghost Train at IMDb