| The Ghost Train | |
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 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 |
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.
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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 1979, comedian Bob Monkhouse, who was also an expert on the history of silent cinema and a film collector, had an intact copy of the full film and many others that were abruptly seized by the police. The botched case went to trial for eleven days before the judge dismissed the jury and told Monkhouse there was no case to answer. All charges were dropped, but law enforcement incinerated the film. [3] [4]
