The Ghost Train (1941)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1941
Running Times:
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Ltd presents a Gainsborough Picture
Producer: Edward Black
In Charge of Production: Maurice Ostrer
Production Manager: Fred Gunn (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Scenario: J.O.C. Orton
Dialogue: Val Guest, Marriott Edgar
Additional Dialogue: Sidney Gilliat
Play: Arnold Ridley

DIRECTION
Director: Walter Forde

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: J.J. Cox
Teignmouth 2nd Unit Photography: Roy Fogwell (uncredited)
Camera Operator: George Stevens (uncredited)
Camera Assistants: Bryan Langley, Hal Britten (both uncredited)

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: R.E. Dearing
Editor: Charles Tormley (uncredited)

MUSIC
Musical Director: Louis Levy
Music: Walter Goehr (uncredited)
Song: Kenneth Blain (The Seaside Band)

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: B.C. Sewell
Recordist: M. Hobbs
Sound Re-Recordist: Eric Wood (uncredited)

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Vetchinsky

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Maisie Kelly (uncredited)

LOCATIONS
Locations: Barmouth Bridge, Wales, UK; Fairbourne Station, Wales, UK
Studio: Shepherd's Bush Studios, London, England, UK

CAST
Arthur Askey (Tommy Gander)
Richard Murdoch (Teddy Deakin)
Kathleen Harrison (Miss Bourne)
Peter Murray-Hill (Richard Winthrop)
Linda Travers (Julie Price)
Marland Graham (Dr Stirling)
Betty Jardine (Edna)
Stuart Latham (Herbert Perkins)
Herbert Lomas (Saul Hodgkin, station master)
Raymond Huntley (John Price)
Linden Travers (Julia Price)
D.J. Williams (Ben Isaacs)
George Merritt (ticket collector (uncredited))
Sydney Monckton (train guard (uncredited))
Wally Bosco (Ted Holmes (uncredited))

A group of travellers are stranded at a remote country railway station in Cornwall said to be haunted by a ghostly train. The travellers investigate and, despite the annoying antics of Vaudevillian Askey, uncover the truth behind the supposed haunting.

One's enjoyment of this version of Arnold Ridley's play rests on how much one can tolerate the talents of music hall superstar Arthur Askey. His fans will love it, though the rest of us will simply find it facile, dated and irritating. Like many British comedy 'horrors' of the time, it turns out to have any real ghosts at all. (Full Review)

Il treno fantasma - Italian title

SEE ALSO
The Ghost Train (1927)
The Ghost Train (1931)
The Ghost Train (1937)

MAGAZINES

Kinematograph Weekly no.1769 (13 March 1941) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.8 no.87 (March 1941) p.27 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Motion Picture Herald 25 December 1947 (USA)
review

Motion Picture Herald vol.142 no.12 (22 March 1941) (USA)
review

Today's Cinema vol.56 no.4542 (12 March 1941) (UK)
review

TV Times 16 - 22 August 1986 p.47 (UK)
credits, synopsis

fake ghosts, ghost trains, music hall, railway stations, railways, spies, stranded passengers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008