Ghost Train (1927 film)
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The Ghost Train | |
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Directed by | Géza von Bolváry |
Produced by | Michael Balcon Hermann Fellner Arnold Pressburger Josef Somlo |
Written by | Arnold Ridley (play) Adolf Lantz Benno Vigny |
Starring | Guy Newall Ilse Bois Louis Ralph Hilde Jennings |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
Production
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Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
Release dates
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September 1927 (UK) 29 October 1927 (Germany) |
Running time
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6,500 feet [1] |
Country | Germany United Kingdom |
Language | Silent English/German intertitles |
Ghost Train (German:Der Geisterzug) is a 1927 German-British comedy crime film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Guy Newall, Ilse Bois and Louis Ralph.[2] It is an adaptation of the Arnold Ridley play The Ghost Train. It was a co-production between Gainsborough Pictures and UFA and was shot at the latter's Staaken Studios in Berlin.
Contents
Cast
- Guy Newall - Teddy Deakin
- Ilse Bois - Miss Bourne
- Louis Ralph - Saul Hodgkin
- Hilde Jennings - Peggy Murdock
- John Manners - Charles Murdock
- Sinaida Korolenko - Elsie Winthrop
- Ernő Verebes - Richard Winthrop
- Hertha von Walther - Julia Price
References
- ↑ Low p.372
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/62202
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Ghost Train at IMDb
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- 1927 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- British films
- British crime films
- British comedy films
- German crime films
- German comedy films
- 1920s comedy films
- 1920s crime films
- Films directed by Géza von Bolváry
- German-language films
- English-language films
- Films based on plays
- Films set in England
- Rail transport films
- Gainsborough Pictures films
- German films
- Films produced by Arnold Pressburger
- 1920s German film stubs
- 1920s British film stubs
- British black-and-white films
- German black-and-white films