The Ghost Train (1941 film)

The Ghost Train
Detail Spanish theatrical poster
Directed byWalter Forde
Written by
Based onplay The Ghost Train
by Arnold Ridley
Produced byEdward Black
Starring
CinematographyJack E. Cox
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Music byWalter Goehr
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 3 May 1941 (1941-05-03) (UK)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.[1][2]

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.

  1. ^ "The Ghost Train". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Arnold Ridley". Bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2014.