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The hit 1925 stageplay "The Ghost Train" by writer & actor Arnold Ridley [1896-1984] has been adapted as
seven silent & sound feature films, three television movies, several radio/audio shows, and a musical stageplay
and the title has been used for many other books & movies & games.

'ghost train in folklore' entry at Wikipedia

"Love is a ghost train, rumbling through the darkness" — song lyric by Counting Crows, 1998

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"The Ghost Train" stageplay [1923] by Arnold Ridley
After a premičre in Brighton, the play transferred to St. Martin's Theatre in London, where it played to sell-out audiences from November 1925
to March 1927; on Broadway in America, it ran for 61 performances in Aug-Oct 1926: actors there included Claudette Colbert.
stageplay entry at Wikipedia

playscript "The Ghost Train: A Play in Three Acts" [1923] by Arnold Ridley Samuel French, Inc. 5x8 pb [11/2010] for $9.95 Samuel French, Ltd. Acting Edition 8½x5½ pb [6/2013] for $16.33 Spanish-language "El Tren Fantasma: Fantasia en Tres Actos, en Prosa (The Ghost Train: Fantasy in Three Acts, in Prose)" [1927] adapted by Emilio González del Castillo 76-page Forgotten Books 9x6 pb [1/2018] for $9.57 74-page Forgotten Books 9x6 hardcover [1/2018] for $25.44

writer & actor Arnold Ridley, OBE [1896-1984]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ridley

"The Ghost Train" novelization [1926] by Ruth Alexander Readers Library, UK hardcover [1926] out of print/used Readers Library, UK hardcover [1927] out of print/scarce 1926 Small, Maynard & Company edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive

All Aboard! Please take your seats . . .

	The Barnstormers [est. 1931] Theatre of Tamworth, New Hampshire Summer theatre company has presented "The Ghost Train" in 1931, 1936, 1950, 1964, 1975, 1980, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2010 & 2017 Barnstormers Theatre official website Barnstormers Theatre entry at Wikipedia
	"The Ghost Train" stageplay [2015] April, 2015 touring company production at The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre [built 1894, renovated 1998], on Lichfield Street in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England • Cast included Tom Butcher, Corrinne Wicks, Liz Garland, Jo Castleton, David Janson, John Hester, Jolyon Young, Jeffery Holland, Ben Roddy, Judy Buxton
	Wayward Theatre Company's staging of "The Ghost Train" [May-June 2017] at the Minnesota Transportation Museum [est. 1962] in Saint Paul, Minnesota watch full closing night video [6/2017 upload; 1:14:45] online at YouTube
	"The Ghost Train" stageplay in Oct 2019 by Centenary Stage Co. [est. 1986] at Centenary University [est. 1867], Lackland Performing Arts Center in Hackettstown, NJ; artistic director Carl Wallnau C.S.C. official site • watch 9/2019 official promo [0:30] online at YouTube

Selected Movies & Television
search DVDs on keywords 'ghost train' {returns almost 400 items} at Amazon

"Der Geisterzug / Le Train Fantôme" silent feature
[Gainsborough/Phoebus-Film AG Sept 1927]

Strange supernatural events start to occur in a railway station, causing members of the public to avoid the place; it turns out that some criminals are faking the strange events to keep people away from the station to protect their smuggling operations • Directed by Géza von Bolváry; German version written by Adolf Lantz & Benno Vigny; French adaptation by André Rigaud; starring Guy Newall, Ilse Bois, Louis Ralph, John Manners, Anna/Hilde Jennings, Agnes/Sinaida Korolenko, Ernest/Ernö Verebes, Rosa/Hertha von Walther, William Biggs VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"The Ghost Train" sound/silent feature [Gaumont U.K. Sept 1931]

Location filming at Monkton Coombe station, Somerset, England; part talkie, mostly silent; only three soundless reels of picture and two reels with sound elements survive; passengers stranded at a remote train station become frightened by the sound of a supposed 'ghost train' • Directed by Walter Forde; written by Lajos Biró, Sidney Gilliat & Angus MacPhail, based on the stageplay by Arnold Ridley; starring comedian Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ann Todd, Cyril Raymond, Allan Jeayes, Donald Calthrop, Angela Baddeley, Henry Caine, Tracy Holmes, Carol Coombe VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch surviving footage [1/2014 upload; 50:44] online at YouTube watch surviving footage [39 mins] at British Film Institute {in U.K. only}

"Trenul Fantomĺ (The Phantom Train)"
[Hunnia Filmgyár/Mercur Film Romania 1933]

Directed by Jean Mihail; screenplay by László Békeffi & Victor Eftimiu, based on the Arnold Ridley stageplay; starring Tony Bulandra, Gheorghe Storin, Lisette Verea, Stroe Atanasiu, Renée-Annie, Dida Solomon (Calimachi), Marcel Enescu, Gheorghe Paunescu, Lajos Ihász, Vilmos Lengyel VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • watch (cropped) full movie in Romanian, no subtitles [6/2018 upload; 1:10:45] online at YouTube

"Kísértetek Vonata (Train of Ghosts)"
[Hunnia Filmgyár Hungary April 1933]

Produced by Sándor Winter; directed by Lajos Lázár; screenplay by László Békeffi & Lajos Biró, based on the Arnold Ridley stageplay; starring Jenö Törzs, Marika Rökk, Ella Gombaszögi, Oszkár/Oscar Beregi Sr., Lajos Ihász, Zoltán Makláry, Margit Ladomerszky, Sándor Pethes, Ica Bodó, Gábor Kertész, Ferenc Turay, Elemér Baló, Jenö Herczeg, Gyula Justh, Vilmos Komlós, Rózsi Miklós VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb watch full movie [12/2016 upload; 1:04:21] online at YouTube

"Un Train dans La Nuit" [France Sept 1934]

77-minute film 'inspired by' Walter Forde's 1931 "The Ghost Train" Directed by René Hervil; adaptation by Pierre Maudru, based on the stageplay "The Ghost Train"; starring Dolly Davis, Georgius, Alice Tissot, Héléna Manson, Charles Dechamps, Henry Bonvallet, Rivers Cadet, André Carnčge, Henri Fénonjois, Renée Piat, François Viguier on Blu-ray [8/00] for $0.00 DVD [8/00] for $0.00 VHS [8/00] for $0.00 credits at IMDb • https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Un_Train_dans_La_Nuit

"The Ghost Train" TV broadcast [B.B.C. Dec 1937]

40-minute live television broadcast based on the stageplay by Arnold Ridley; produced by Jan Bussell; starring Laura Smithson, Don Gemmell, Hugh Dempster, Daphne Riggs, John Counsell, Arthur Young, Rani Waller, Clifford Benn, Philip Thornley, Alex McCrindle, S.E. Reynolds, Joan Lawson film or kinescope copy does not exist • credits at IMDb

"De Spooktrein (The Ghost Train)" [Holland 1939]

green maroon yellow Produced by Rudolf Meyer; directed by Karel Lamac; co-written by Kees Bruynse, based on the stageplay by Arnold Ridley; starring Sara Heyblom, Lies de Wind, Chris Baay, Adolphe Engers, Cissy Van Bennekom, Louis Borel, Lau Ezerman, (co-writer} Nico De Jong, Fien/Fientje de la Mar, Piet Rienks, Jan Musch, John Gobau, Hans Tiemeijer on Blu-ray [8/00] for $0.00 DVD [8/00] for $0.00 VHS [8/00] for $0.00 full credits at IMDb •

"The Ghost Train" [Gainsborough/G.F.D. U.K. March 1941]

Mismatched travelers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station; they soon learn of local superstitions about a phantom train said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago local train wreck. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey delivers gags with his Vaudeville/Music Hall-style humor. • Directed by Walter Forde; written by J.O.C. Orton, Marriott Edgar & Val Guest, third film based on the stageplay by Arnold Ridley; starring Arthur Askey, Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Carole Lynne, Morland Graham, Betty Jardine, Stuart Latham, Herbert Lomas, Raymond Huntley, Linden Travers, D.J. Williams • full credits at IMDb Nostalgia Family b&w DVD [7/2015] for $5.99 L.W.F. b&w DVD-R [3/2016] for $9.99 Gaumont/Gainsborough widescreen {panned & scanned?} b&w DVD-R [5/2015] for $10.99 Serpent Films b&w DVD-R [1/2016] for $12.99 watch full b&w movie [1:21:21] online at Public Domain Movies website watch full b&w movie [1:21:23] online at YouTube

"The Ghost Train" TV movie [BBC-TV 1948]

2-hour 15-minute broadcast of the stageplay from Green Lanes Theater, Palmers Green, London, UK Theatrical producer J. Grant Anderson; television producer Campbell Logan; starring author & actor Arnold Ridley, Peter Walter, Diana Fairfax, Robert Long, Lysbeth Harley, Marjorie Zeidler, Edward Jewesbury, Monica Stutfield, Ernest Haines, David Raven, Richard Preston film or kinescope do not exist • full credits at IMDb

"Der Geisterzug (The Ghost Train)" TV movie
[Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) West Germany June 1957]

65-minute TV show co-written & directed by Rainer Wolffhardt; co-written by Helmut Pigge, based on the Arthur Ridley stageplay; starring Karl-Georg Saebisch, Kurt Haars, Otto Stern, Käthe Lindenberg, Günther Neutze, Hans-Walter Clasen, Isolde Bräuner, Manfred Böhm, Brigitte Rau, Sonja Sutter, Karl Bockx Region 1 VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb watch full movie - German language, no subtitles [2/2017 upload; 1:00:14] online at YouTube Amazon Instant Video Germany [2010] free with Amazon Prime, SD rental €1,99, SD purchase €4,99

"Spřgelsestoget (Ghost Train International)" [Denmark 1976] /tt0073741/

works not connected
Works entitled "Ghost Train" or credited as such that are not actually related to the Arnold Ridley stageplay.

"The Ghost Train" novelty clip [American Mutoscope & Biograph Jan 1903]
early trick film uses negative stock to make a 'ghost' train; cinematography by Frederick S. Armitage • full credits at IMDb
watch footage [6/2010 upload; 0:42] online at YouTube

"El Tren Fantasma (The Ghost Train)" silent feature [Mexico 1927]

A railroad engineer investigates a robbery spree, and falls for the stationmaster's daughter; filmed in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico • Directed by Gabriel García Moreno; stars Carlos Sánchez Alducín, Rafael Araiza, Carrera Sr., Angelita Ibáńez, Clara Ibáńez, Vecino Orizaba, Manuel Oropeza, Guillermo Pacheco, Neto Rodríguez Pasquel, Enrique Rivadeneyra, Manuel de los Ríos, Sánchez Tello, Carlos Villatoro VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb • Filmoteca UNAM movie page watch full movie with piano & violin music [3/2020 upload; 1:06:11] online at YouTube watch full movie with terrible guitar music [7/2019 upload; 1:10:59] online at YouTube the blue poster at left is for a screening of the newly-restored "El Tren Fantasma" 1927 silent feature sponsored by Filmoteca UNAM in March 2015; admission free, live music by Ensamble Cine Mudo (Silent Cinema Ensemble)

"The Phantom Express" [Majestic Pictures 1932] /tt0023333/
bears close similarity to the play's theme, not acknowledged in the credits

"Oh, Mr Porter!" British comedy [Gainsborough/Gaumont British Oct 1937] was very loosely adapted from the play
starring Will Hay; filmed on the Basingstoke-Alton Light Railway, Hampshire, England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh,_Mr_Porter!

"The Ghost Train Murder" [Anglo-Amalgamated Dec 1959]

32-minute episode #31 of the series of 39 'Scotland Yard' theatrical shorts, 1953-61; Scotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride; their inquiries lead to a rooming house full of shoplifters • Produced by Jack Greenwood; directed by Peter Maxwell; screenplay by James Eastwood; narrated by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten; starring Russell Napier, Gordon Boyd (Needham), Mary Laura Wood, Jill Ireland, Diane Aubrey, Mavis Greenaway, Angela Browne, Carole Ann Ford, John Kelland, Shaun O'Riordan, Robert Sansom, Jessica James, Helen Forrest, Alan Keith, David Browning, Marianne Stone, Jack Taylor, Eric Corrie • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

"Ghost Train (Yűrei Ressha)" TV drama [TV Asahi Japan Jan 1978]

mystery based on a short story by Jiro Akagawa; a police inspector and a female college student attempt to solve the passenger disappearance incident that occurred in a rural hot spring town • Co-written & directed by Kihachi Okamoto; co-written by Hiroshi Nagano; starring Yôko Asaji, Kunie Tanaka, Asao Uchida, Masa-kazu Kuwayama, Taiji Tonoyama, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hifumi Soganoya, Masahiko Naruse, Shinji Ogawa, Kazuhiro Fukuzaki, Yôji Matsuda, Hideyo Amamoto, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Kinzô Shin, Eitarô Ozawa; Region 2 DVD has Japanese-language soundtrack, no subtitles • full credits at IMDb Daiei imported Region 2 color DVD [2001] out of prodn/scarce

"Ghost Train" & "Percy's Ghostly Trick" [Dec 1986]
episode #24 of season 2 {series episode #50 } of the "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" children's TV series [1985-2015]

Based on the first story of the Railway Series book "Tramway Engines" [1972]; Percy tells Thomas the story of a ghostly engine that he heard from his driver, although later the driver tells Percy that it was only a pretend ghost he saw on TV; Thomas scorns Percy before Percy finds out that the story was fake. After an accident with lime, and still annoyed for how Thomas spoke to him, Percy gets Toby to help him play a prank. Co-produced & co-written by Britt Allcroft; co-produced, co-written & directed by David Mitton episode credits at IMDb • watch full episode S2E24 [5.32] online at YouTube

"Ghost Train (Il Treno Fantasma)" episode [Italy April 1992]
of the "The Adventures of Lucky Luke" 8-episode Italian Western comedy TV series [Reteitalia 1992]

An old prospector thinks he's being haunted by a 'ghost train' that nearly took him to his death twenty years before; when he vanishes, a circuit judge orders a trial for the banker who wanted the prospector's claim; but Luke suspects a nosy newspaper-woman and just maybe, an actual ghost. TV series was based on the Belgian comic book series "Lucky Luke" [est. 1946] and on a 1991 movie, and filmed in New Mexico (Bonanza Creek Ranch, Santa Fe, Zia Pueblo, Valles Caldera National Preserve, White Sands National Monument) and in La Junta, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona • Directed by Ted Nicolaou; narrated by Roger Miller; starring Terence Hill, Nancy Morgan, Jack Elam, Abe Vigoda, Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad, Neil Summers, Steve Rankin, David Huddleston, Michael Huddleston, Alison Shanks, Mark Hardwick, Robin Westphal, Paula Baz, Rebecca Barliant, Doug Molitor, Bobby Lee Hayes, David Ode, Amy Lawrence Customflix single-episode color DVD-R [5/2007] for $14.99 Tapeworm single-episode color DVD [7/2000] out of prodn/used episode credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia

"The Tale of Train Magic" TV episode [Cookie Jar Ent. Canada Jan 1995]
episode 13 of season 4 of the "Are You Afraid of The Dark?" 91-episode TV series [1990-2000]

teens of a Midnight Society gather around a campfire in a forest and tell each other scary stories; Frank tells this one about The Ghost of Train 713 • Created, co-written & directed by D.J. MacHale; co-written by Gerald Wexler; starring Gregory Smith, Jesse Moss, Colin Fox, Ray Aranha, Susan Glover, Terence Bowman, Rob Martin, Wayne Morning, Jason Alisharan, Daniel DeSanto, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Ross Hull, Raine Pare-Coull, Jodie Resther episode credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia Direct Source color DVD [2014] 13 episodes on 3 disks for $39.99

"Ghost Train" horror film [Shochiku Japan Sept 2006]

"All aboard! The train to hell is now departing!" • Nana rides the train and somewhere deep underground in the tunnel near Mizunashi Station a dark spirit yearns for revenge: one by one people begin to mysteriously vanish and then reappear as zombies . . . • Produced by Yoshitaka Ishizuka; co-written & directed by Takeshi Furu-sawa; original story by Daisuke Fukushima & Kei Asami; co-written by Erika Tanaka & Scott Gensch; starring Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto, Itsuji Itao, actress-model Aja, Sae Shimizu, Eiki Kitamura, Kôki Katô, Kazuya Sato, Haru Makino, Suzuno Nomura, Shinji Rokkaku, Motofumi Takaya, Rena Sakaki, Miyoko Asada, Christine M. Auten, Yuriko Hirooka, Kyle Jones, Brittney Karbowski, Charles C. Campbell, Luci Christian, Jay Hickman, Rebekah Dahl, Sachiko Matsuura, Shirô Namiki, Shigeru Saiki, Shirô Shimomoto & many credited voice actors Funimation Prodns widescreen color DVD [4/2009] for $8.17 Section 23 color DVD [7/2007] for $23.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [1:01] online at YouTube

"The Ghost Train of Manggarai" [Rapi Films Indonesia April 2008]
original title "Kereta Hantu Manggarai"

Rossa believes that her estranged sister Emily has been abducted by the 'ghost train' and enlists several friends in visiting the supernatural . . . • Directed by Nayato Fio Nuala; written by Ery Sofid; starring Giannina Emanuela, Nadila Ernesta, Stefanie Hariadi, Rina Hasyim, Melvin Lim, Sheila Marcia Joseph, Fendi Trihartanto Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • credits at IMDb

"Ghost Train" TV movie [Russkiy Kosmos June 2011] /tt13801738/
Directed by Aleksey Kitaytsev; lost treasure in Lake Baikal, Siberia Oblast

"Ghost Train" short horror film [studio mo 2013]

Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant pilgrimage to the old fairground acreage where their friend Sam went missing when they were boys, sucked inside the Ghost Train ride, never to return; this year, Michael has something to tell Peter that will cast fresh light on the incident, something that will change their lives even more than that fateful day 30 years ago . . . • 17-minute horror film written & directed by Lee Cronin; starring Owen McDonnell, Steve Wall, Matthew Dillon, Sean Gormley, Matthew Broe credits at IMDb • watch 7/2013 official trailer [1:07] online at YouTube DVD/Blu-ray not available • Amazon Instant Video [2013] HD rental $1.99, HD purchase $2.99

"Torchwood: The Ghost Train" audio recording [BBC May 2014]

'exclusive audio adventure' written by James Goss; featuring Rhys Williams (and read by Welsh actor Kai Owen) Blackstone Audiobooks audio CD [5/2014] for $28.00

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Ghost Train Orchestra is a Brooklyn-based jazz & chamber ensemble led by Brian Carpenter; the band formed in 2006 and its repertoire
features Carpenter's rearrangements and often avant-garde treatments of obscure music from the 1920s and 1930s.
official site • entry at Wikipedia •

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