The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train

Year: 1941

IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Directors: Walter Forde

Cast: Kathleen Harrison, Richard Murdoch, Arthur Askey

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers.

The Ghost Train is a 1941 British thriller mystery film directed by Walter Forde and starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch. It is based on the 1923 play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film is set in Cornwall. Several passengers leave a train, and find no other train available at the train station. They are stranded there during a rainy night, and learn that the station is supposedly haunted by a ghost train.

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor.

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