🎥 The Ghost Train (1941) starring Arthur Askey
Released in 1941, The Ghost Train is a comedy thriller and is based on the 1923 book written by Arnold Ridley, who played Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army.
Filmed in black and white.
A group of travellers, including Tommy Gander (played by Arthur Askey), are stranded at a rural railway station in Cornwall, as they miss their connection.
It’s a terrible night weather-wise, and the station master does all he can to persuade them to go, but they stay.
He tells them about the ghost train but they still refuse to move.
It turns out that the train really does exist, but it’s an arms smuggling operation, led by Nazi sympathisers.
In the end, the story that they use about the original train crashing into the sea actually comes true, and the traitors are killed and the weapons lost.
An excellent movie and Arthur Askey is very funny.
Filmed at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd’s Bush, London, the buildings were finally demolished in 1993, after closing two years previously.
It’s now a housing estate.
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