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The Ghost Train is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Walter Forde with Jack Hulbert

The Ghost Train (1931)

The Ghost Train
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Length 1h11
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Genres Thriller,    Comedy,    Horror
Rating60% 3.0477553.0477553.0477553.0477553.047755

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 is by Walter Murton.

Thought to have been lost, the film was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to locate missing movies.

Actors

Jack Hulbert

(Teddy Deakin)Cicely Courtneidge
Ann Todd

(Peggy Murdock)Allan Jeayes

(Dr. Sterling)Donald Calthrop

(Saul Hodgkin)Angela Baddeley
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