A Train in the Night

1934 film
  • 28 September 1934 (1934-09-28)
Running time
77 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

A Train in the Night (French: Un train dans la nuit) is a 1934 French mystery film directed by René Hervil and starring Dolly Davis, Georgius and Alice Tissot.[1] [2] It is an adaptation of Arnold Ridley's play The Ghost Train.[3]

Synopsis

In England a group of passengers are stranded overnight at a remote country station when they miss their connecting train. They are informed that this is the night a ghostly train passes through the station on the anniversary of a terrible train wreck.

Cast

  • Dolly Davis as Peggy Murdoch
  • Georgius as Teddy Deakin
  • Alice Tissot as Miss Bourne
  • Héléna Manson as La folle
  • Charles Dechamps as Winthrops
  • Henry Bonvallet
  • Rivers Cadet
  • André Carnège
  • Henri Fénonjois
  • Renée Piat
  • François Viguier

References

  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.486
  2. ^ Rège p.504
  3. ^ Goble p.389

Bibliography

  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934. Pygmalion, 1988.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

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