The Ghost Train (1931)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1931
Running Times: 72 mins
Format: black and white
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Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Gainsborough Pictures / W & F Film Service
Producers: Michael Balcon
Associate Producer: Phil C. Samuel

SCRIPT
Script: Angus MacPhail, Lajos Biró
Additional Dialogue: Sidney Gilliat
Play: Arnold Ridley

DIRECTION
Director: Walter Forde
Assistant Director: William J. Dodds

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Leslie Rowson
Assistant Camera: Jack Cardiff

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Ian Dalrymple
Assistant Editor: Alex Milner-Gardner (uncredited)

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: George Gunn
Sound Recordist: Harry Hand

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Walter Murton

LOCATIONS
Locations: Islington, London, England

CAST
Jack Hulbert (Teddy Deakin
Cicely Courtneidge (Miss Bourne
Cyril Raymond (Richard Winthrop
Ann Todd (Peggy Murdock
Angela Baddeley (Julie Price
Henry Caine (Herbert Price
Tracey Holmes (Charles Bryant
Carol Coombe (Elsie Bryant
Donald Calthrop (Sam Hodgkin
Allan Jeayes (Dr Sterling
Walter Forde (passenger
Matthew Boulton
Billy Watts

A group of rail travellers are stranded overnight at a remote railway station said to be haunted by a ghost train. But is the phantom locomotive really as supernatural as it first seems?

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Gaumont British

SEE ALSO
The Ghost Train (1927)
The Ghost Train (1937)
The Ghost Train (1941)

MAGAZINES

Picturegoer vol.1 no.32 (2 January 1932) p.22
review

Variety 21st February 1933
review

fake ghosts, play into film, railway stations, railways, stranded passengers, trains

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008