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]
| A Train in the Night | |
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| Directed by | René Hervil |
| Written by | Pierre Maudru |
| Based on | The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley |
| Starring | Dolly Davis Georgius Alice Tissot |
Production company | Films Régent |
Release date |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Synopsis
editIn 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
edit- 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
editBibliography
edit- 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.
External links
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