A weird story from late 50s

[Dave B]

Can you identify this from the little I remember?



Travellers in a train carriage notice that they are slowing down. On checking, they find that their carriage has been disconnected from the engine - and they slowly roll to a stop.



They are near a village - and they walk in for assistance. The residents, however, are very eccentric.



I was about ten when I saw this at the cinema with my mother, and I felt then it was frightening. I may be wrong, but I think the travellers were British and the village was French.



That's it. Any ideas?

[clitheroekid]

No, but am intrigued to know the answer!

[DB7]

We've had this before and the nearest is Mystery Junction or Dr Terror's.

[Dave B]

It could by "Mystery Junction", I suppose - though the IMDb doesn't give much away.



It wouldn't be anything called "Dr Terror's". Even my mother wouldn't have taken a ten year old to see a film with a title like that.



In any case, the date was the late Fifties. "Mystery Junction" was 1951, I see. But our local flea-pit (Feltham Playhouse) was independent, so it might have been showing eight-year old Merton Park B pictures.

[Dave B]

I've just read the "Mystery Junction" description on this site - and that's not the movie.



Perhaps I'll ask again in 2009.

[hankoler]

Is it the one called The ghost train written by arthur ridley?

[Windthrop]

Your best bet is the British Film Catalogue by Denis Gifford - covers ever British film of the 50's and more with a description of plot

[glyn horton]

The Gamma People made in 1955?



Check out the user comments on imdb. It sounds similar to what you remember Dave B

[Dave B]

No, it wasn't "The Gamma People" - though that seems like an interesting movie.



The only other detail I can remember is that one of the stranded train passengers was a precocious schoolboy - rather like Ronnie Raymond in "Murder She Said". But it wasn't Ronnie Raymond, because he would've been too young when this film was made.