Overview
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. 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 (5 reels of images with 2 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.
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.
Cast
Jack Hulbert as Teddy Deakin
Cicely Courtneidge as Miss Bourne
Ann Todd as Peggy Murdock
Cyril Raymond as Richard Winthrop
Allan Jeayes as Dr. Sterling
Donald Calthrop as Saul Hodgkin
Angela Baddeley as Julia Price
Henry Caine as Herbert Price
Tracy Holmes as Charles Bryant
Carol Coomb as Elsie Bryant
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