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Richard Murdoch | ... |
Teddy Deakin
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Kathleen Harrison | ... | |
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Peter Murray-Hill | ... | |
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Carole Lynne | ... | |
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Morland Graham | ... | |
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Betty Jardine | ... |
Edna Hopkins
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Stuart Latham | ... | |
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Herbert Lomas | ... | |
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Raymond Huntley | ... |
John Price
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Linden Travers | ... | |
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D.J. Williams | ... |
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
I really wanted to like this film. I really did. It sounded like it had so much potential. A ghost story, a comedy. Another "Ghost Breakers" or "Cat and the Canary", or "Hold that Ghost", I thought. No such luck.
I started to loose focus after about 20 minutes but I stuck with it for 45 before I finally called it a night. I thought maybe I just wasn't in the right mood and since I had recorded it on my DVR I decided I'd try again in a few days. The second time around I didn't even make it to 45 minutes.
The problem, at least for me, was Arthur Askey. I found myself repeating the words, "God, what an obnoxious ham". I tried to see past him, but he's in every scene, and every scene he's in .. he ruins. I realize that other reviewers seem to think he's great. I guess it's a perfect example of "different strokes".
I can't help but wonder what fun this movie could have been with Bob Hope or Abbott & Costello.