The Ghost Train (1927)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1927
Running Times:
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: silent

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Gainsborough Pictures / FPS / Phoebus-Film

SCRIPT
Script: Benno Vigny, Adolf Lantz
French Adaptation: André Rigaud
Play: Arnold Ridley

DIRECTION
Director: Géza von Bolváry

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Otto Kanturek

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: O.F. Werndorff

CAST
Ilse Bois
Guy Newall

A group of travellers is stranded overnight at a remote railway station apparently haunted by a ghost train. But is the phantom locomotive really as supernatural as it seems?

SEE ALSO
The Ghost Train (1931)
The Ghost Train (1937)
The Ghost Train (1941)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1996)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Bioscope vol.72 no.1093 (15 September 1927) p.56 (UK)
review

Kine Weekly 15 September 1927 (UK)
review

railway; play into film; fake ghosts; trains; railway stations; stranded passengers