Stranded passengers, phantom locomotive, and British stiff upper lips about to crack.
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Acting
Cicely Courtneidge's comic timing saves the tension from total collapse.
Practical Effects
That train smash finale—pre-CGI spectacle done with actual metal.
Director
Walter Forde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Arnold Ridley's 1923 play, written after his own traumatic WWI railway accident—he later became Dad's Army's Private Godfrey.
The missing reels were likely destroyed in a 1960s vault fire; what survives is a Frankenstein edit from multiple incomplete prints.
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