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.
| The Ghost Train | |
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.jpg) 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 | |
| Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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.[2]
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.[3]
Cast
edit- 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
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ Rose, Simon (1994). "Profiles: Bob Monkhouse - Film Collector". Empire. Bauer Media Group.
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