16 September 1927 Horror, Crime 59 mins
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.
Watch the official The Ghost Train 1927 trailer in HD below.
Guy Newall as Teddy Puffnut
Ilse Bois as Miss Burns
Hertha von Walther as Julia
Hilde Jennings as Peggy
Louis Ralph as Stationmaster Saul
John Manners as Charly
Sinaida Korolenko as Elsie (as Agnes Korolenko)
Ernö Verebes as Bobby (as Ernst Verebes)
Julius Messaros as Julia's Brother
Karl Falkenberg as Physician
Géza von Bolváry Director
Adolf Lantz Screenplay
André Rigaud Screenplay
Benno Vigny Screenplay
Michael Balcon Producer
Hermann Fellner Producer
Arnold Pressburger Producer
Josef Somlo Producer
Willy Schmidt-Gentner Music
Otto Kanturek Director of Photography
Germany 29 October 1927
Denmark 11 September 1929
Finland 20 November 1927
United Kingdom 19 March 1928
Sweden 03 January 1930
United States 29 May 2015
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03 March 1927
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01 September 1927
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27 August 1927
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17 November 1927
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05 November 1927
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06 November 1927
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12 November 1927
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05 January 1927
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