A Train in the Night explained

A Train in the Night
Director:	René Hervil
Starring:	Dolly Davis Georgius Alice Tissot
Studio:	Films Régent
Runtime:	77 minutes
Country:	France
Language:	French

A Train in the Night (French: Un train dans la nuit) is a 1934 French mystery film directed by René Hervil and starring Dolly Davis, Georgius and Alice Tissot.^{[1] [2]} It is an adaptation of Arnold Ridley's play The Ghost Train.^[3]

Synopsis

In England a group of passengers are stranded overnight at a remote country station when they miss their connecting train. They are informed that this is the night a ghostly train passes through the station on the anniversary of a terrible train wreck.

Cast

• Dolly Davis as Peggy Murdoch
• Georgius as Teddy Deakin
• Alice Tissot as Miss Bourne
• Héléna Manson as La folle
• Charles Dechamps as Winthrops
• Henry Bonvallet
  • • Rivers Cadet André Carnège Henri Fénonjois
• Renée Piat
• François Viguier

References

1. Bessy & Chirat p.486
2. Rège p.504
3. Goble p.389

Bibliography

• Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934. Pygmalion, 1988.
• Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.