The Ghost Train | |
Director: | Walter Forde |
Producer: | Michael Balcon Phil C. Samuel |
Based On: | The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley |
Starring: | Jack Hulbert Cicely Courtneidge Ann Todd Cyril Raymond |
Cinematography: | Leslie Rowson |
Editing: | Ian Dalrymple |
Studio: | Gainsborough Pictures |
Distributor: | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
Runtime: | 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.
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 a feature about him in the January 1994 edition of Empire magazine, it was revealed that Bob Monkhouse had an intact copy of the full film, but this, along with other irreplaceable material, was seized by the police when he was arrested for conspiracy to import feature films belonging to major film companies. Although the charges were dropped, the film had been incinerated.[3]