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The Ghost Train (1941)

The Ghost Train poster
Directed by
Walter Forde
Genre
comedy horror
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of passengers get stuck at a remote train station in Cornwall on a rainy night. They hear stories about a ghost train that supposedly haunts the station.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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