A motley crew must spend the night at a small, remote railway station. Strange occurrences and old stories about a ghost train that is supposed to pass through the station do not exactly contribute to a cozy atmosphere. However, the haunting turns out to be a ruse covering up smuggling activities, and one of the travelers turns out to be a detective on the trail of the smugglers. Based on the 1923 play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley.
Acting
Dirch Passer's cowardly teddy bear steals every scene.
Production
Gloriously creaky station set practically breathes amateur theatrics.
Writing
Ridley's 1923 play structure still lands its clockwork reveals.
Director
Bent Christensen
Dirch Passer
Theodor T. Thönder, kaldet Teddy
Kirsten Walther
Juliane de Preiss
Axel Strøbye
Heinz-Otto von Münsterland, chauffør
Preben Kaas
Richard Winther, gullaschbaron
Lisbet Dahl
Fru Else Winther
Clara Østø
Frk. Erna Bunsen
Bjørn Puggaard-Müller
Falck, stationsforstander
Otto Brandenburg
Den mystiske hr. K.
Ole Monty
Stationsfunktionær
Bent Christensen
Stationsfunktionær
Preben Mahrt
Stationsfunktionær
Kai Løvring
Lars Lunøe
Leif Panduro
Hans Christian Ægidius
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arnold Ridley, who wrote the original play, later became beloved as Private Godfrey in Dad's Army.
Dirch Passer was Denmark's comedy king; this ghost train ride was one of his final films before his sudden death that same year.
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