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The Ghost Train

UK 1941
produced by
Edward Black for Gainsborough
directed by Walter Forde
starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Carole Lynne, Morland Graham, Betty Jardine, Stuart Latham, Herbert Lomas, Raymond Huntley, Linden Travers, D.J.Williams, George Merritt, Wilfrid Lawson
screenplay by Marriott Edgar, Val Guest, J.O.C. Orton, based on a play by Arnold Ridley, music by Walter Goehr

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A group of travellers - comedian Tommy (Arthur Askey), Teddy (Richard Murdoch), Doctor Sterling (Morland Graham), Herbert (Stuart Latham) and Edna (Betty Jardine), R.G. (Peter Murray-Hill) and Jackie (Carole Lynne), & Miss Bourne (Kathleen Harrison) - are told to change trains at a railway station in the middle of nowhere, but their train simply doen't arrive, instead the stationmaster (Herbert Lomas) tells them an eerie story about a train that was wrecked nearby years ago, and since then it does come back to haunt people on certain nights - and this night is such a night. And to make his point, he then leaves the travellers alone since he doesn't want to be caught by the ghost train at the station. Soon enough though, he returns, dead, giving our travellers quite a bit of a shock.

Not long after that, Julia (Linden Travers) arrives, who seems to be terribly frightened of the ghost train on one hand, but who wants to see it with her own eyes on the other. Her brother Price (Raymond Huntley) arrives soon afterwards and wants to take her back, telling everybody else she's just fantasizing. When the corpse of the stationmaster has suddenly disappeared, the others are not so sure anymore. Then too, the train really does pass by, putting a terrible fright into everybody, and soon enough, Price organizes a bus to take everybody away. But Tommy and Teddy decide it's time to investigate, like a nearby drawbridge that is closed when it's supposed to be open, and soon Tommy is set to solve the mystery ... but is knocked out by R.G.

When everybody is carted off by bus, it turns out that Price, Julia and the Doctor are all fifth columnists using the train for gunrunning purposes and covering up the whole thing by a local folk tale about a ghost train - and Teddy is a undercover cop who uncover the whole thing - until he was knocked out by R.G. for purely personal reasons. However, everything is not lost because Tommy opened the drawbridge on a whim and now it's going to its certain doom. With the train crashing on the bridge, it is easy for Teddy and the others to overcome the fifth columnists, and ultimately, Great Britain is saved ...

 

Basically, The Ghost Train is of course a propaganda movie, however it contains enough creepy sequences to also work as a chiller (and truth to be told, the propaganda element doesn't kick in until very late into the film). Actually, the only aspects of the film that do not work all that well are the comic ones (and that despite the fact that the movie was marketed as a comedy), basically because top-billed Arthur Askey goes over the top a few times too often and eventually becomes as annoying as the other characters regard him to be (and treat him likewise).

Still, Askey aside, the film has its moments and is far from being a complete waste of time.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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