The Ghost Train (1931 film)

The Ghost Train
The film's main characters in the station's waiting room
Directed byWalter Forde
Written byLajos Bíró
Angus MacPhail
Sidney Gilliat
Based onThe Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley
Produced byMichael Balcon
Phil C. Samuel
StarringJack Hulbert
Cicely Courtneidge
Ann Todd
Cyril Raymond
CinematographyLeslie Rowson
Edited byIan Dalrymple
Production
company
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • 21 September 1931 (1931-09-21)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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 (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

References

  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.
  3. ^ Rose, Simon (1994). "Profiles: Bob Monkhouse - Film Collector". Empire. Bauer Media Group.


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