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The Ghost Train (Original title)Der Geisterzug (Alternative title)Le Train Fantôme (Alternative title)
Date: 1927 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Director: Geza von Bolvary

Synopsis: A detective poses as a simpleton to expose a gun-running gang using an abandoned railway line. [Sourced from The British Film Catalogue: Volume 1: Denis Gifford: 3rd Edition]

Genre:
Comedy
Releases
Date: 1927Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentRuntime: 78 mins 47 secs - Length: 6500 FeetLanguage: English
Date: September 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SilentRuntime: 72 mins Distributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (12)
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures, Production Company: F.P.S., Production Company: Phoebus-Film, Producer: Michael Balcon, Producer: Herman Fellner, Screenplay: Benno Vigny, Screenplay: Adolf Lantz, [French Adaptation]: André Rigaud, Based on the play by: Arnold Ridley, Photography: Otto Kanturek, Art Director: O.F. Werndorff
Cast (8)
Ilse Bois (Miss Ophelia Bourne), Hilde Jennings (Peggy Murdock), John Manners (Charly Murdock), S. Korolenko (Elsie Winthrop), Ernest Verebes (Bobby Winthrop), Guy Newall (Teddie Deakin), Louis Ralph (Saul Hodgkin), Hertha von Walther (Julia Price)