Val Guest (dialogue)
J.O.C. Orton (writer)
Arnold Ridley (play)
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.
Differences from play
The film splits the lead character (Teddy Deakin) in the play to accommodate the comedy partnership of Askey & Murdoch.
In the play the villains are gun runners. This was changed to Fifth Columnists in the film as it was made during the war
The equivalent character in the play to Julia Price in the film is in fact the leader of the gun runners
A secret passage is used in the play that is not evident in the film
The character of Gander/Deakin starts the play as a complete buffoon in the Bertie Wooster mould
- Arthur Askey as Tommy Gander
- Richard Murdoch as Teddy Deakin
- Kathleen Harrison as Miss Bourne
- Peter Murray-Hill as Richard G. Winthrop
- Carole Lynne as Jackie Winthrop
- Morland Graham as Dr. Sterling
- Betty Jardine as Edna
- Stuart Latham as Herbert
- Herbert Lomas as Saul Hodgkin
- Raymond Huntley as John Price
- Linden Travers as Julia Price
- D.J. Williams as Ben Isaacs
