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High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.
Richard Murdoch
- Teddy Deakin
- (as Richard {Stinker} Murdoch)
Wallace Bosco
- Ted Holmes
- (uncredited)
George Merritt
- Inspector
- (uncredited)
Sidney Monckton
- Train Guard
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWriter Arnold Ridley came up with the idea for this story whilst standing on the platform of Mangotsfield Station near Bristol. The station is surrounded on three sides by tracks, and there was an earth bank opposite him which reflected the sounds of trains coming along the track on the other side of the station, making it sound like a train was coming that would never arrive.
- GoofsThroughout the entire film, several of the gentlemen's handkerchiefs change position or even fold.
- Quotes
Tedding: Will you shut up!
Gander: Shut up, sir, Very Good, sir...
[gets a cup]
Gander: If this be a natural thing, where do it come from? Where do it go...?
[a book is thrown at him]
- ConnectionsEdited from The Wrecker (1929)
Featured review
The ghosts of Askey's past
The question of whether or not one likes this film version of "The Ghost Train" invariably depends on one thing and one thing alone: your reaction to the performance of Arthur Askey.
He tends to steal almost every scene he's in, and not always in a good way. Sometimes you wish he'd settle down or back off just a little, to allow the plot's many characters to feature and develop (which they do to some extent). But somehow everything keeps pointing back to Askey's Tommy Gander character.
Personally I like the film, and even like Askey to an extent. I always seem to plonk it into the vcr at those odd hours of the early morning when I can't sleep and really can't find the energy to watch anything else. There is something about watching old b/w movies in the quiet dark of pre-dawn that I find appealing....
He tends to steal almost every scene he's in, and not always in a good way. Sometimes you wish he'd settle down or back off just a little, to allow the plot's many characters to feature and develop (which they do to some extent). But somehow everything keeps pointing back to Askey's Tommy Gander character.
Personally I like the film, and even like Askey to an extent. I always seem to plonk it into the vcr at those odd hours of the early morning when I can't sleep and really can't find the energy to watch anything else. There is something about watching old b/w movies in the quiet dark of pre-dawn that I find appealing....
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- darkdayforanime
- May 15, 2004
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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