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The Ghost Train (1941)Hijinks and chills ensue when a group become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.... Director:Walter Forde |
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Arthur Askey | ... |
Tommy Gander
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Carole Lynne | ... |
Jackie Winthrop
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Betty Jardine | ... |
Edna Hopking
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Herbert Perkins
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Raymond Huntley | ... |
John Price
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Ben Isaacs
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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. Written by Neil Bridger
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3 May 1941 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
El tren fantasma See more »Company Credits
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Gander: Shut up, sir, Very Good, sir...
[gets a cup]
Gander: If this be a natural thing where do it come from where do it go...
[a book is thrown at him]
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(uncredited)
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Sung by Arthur Askey
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Due to previous work commitments having taken him around the country, Arthur Askey's first real experience of the Blitz came when he arrived in London to shoot the film, having despatched his wife and daughter to the perceived safety of Lakeside at Lake Windermere. See more »Goofs
When Teddy shoots at the 'ghost' on the platform, he uses what appears to be a 1910 Model Browning automatic, a popular police and civilian pistol of the time; but when he re-enters the waiting room he is holding a 1901 Model Browning, quite different in appearance. Later when the villain Price threatens the passengers on the bus, he now has the M1910. See more »Quotes
Tedding: Will you shut up!Gander: Shut up, sir, Very Good, sir...
[gets a cup]
Gander: If this be a natural thing where do it come from where do it go...
[a book is thrown at him]
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"Oh Dear what can the matter be"(uncredited)
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Sung by Arthur Askey
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So your bairns are away on a sleep-over ? The wife is visiting the mother in law? You though are at home. It's a dark and stormy night and there is no football on the telly and the dishwasher needs stacking? So now what are you going to do?
I will tell you!
Go make an old fashioned cocoa (Frys is best!)Get hold of some ginger nuts and sit down in front of the DVD. Now go select and play Arthur Askeys world war two thriller/horror The Ghost Train, return to that comfortable settee and enjoy the night in!
The Ghost Train is a genuine British war time classic! Arthur Askey with his side kick,Stinker Murdoch, entertain you and I suspect the cast, to a high octane, thrills and spills, espionage thriller.It's set in old rural England during the second world war.
It centres around a motley group of people that need to stay overnight, through circumstances outside any ones' control, in an old railway waiting room that they discover is haunted by an old train.
The plot unfolds neatly and precisely and is a credit to the entire cast it is humorous in parts and at times genuinely scary!
(The tale was written by that old boy Godfrey of Dads Army fame and it is clever )
Arthur Askey is entertaining and is very at home preforming his routines to you and the cast, he also shows he can act a bit! The cast are never out staged though, even the railway porter and the parrot help give the film the necessary gravitas.
Oh and when it ends please remember to stack the dish washer!