Express (1925), although there is no acknowledgement of this in that production's credits. The first credited filmed version was a German-British silent film co-production the Ghost Train in 1927. The next film, starring comedian Jack Hulbert, was The Ghost Train (1931), only survives in an incomplete form. The Phantom Express (1932) made in Hollywood the next year bears close similarity to the play's theme, but it is unacknowledged in its credits. In 1937, another version was produced The Ghost Train, starring Clifford Benn, John Counsell, and Hugh Dempster. Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) starring Will Hay, was adapted from the play. On 28 December 1937, the BBC broadcast a forty-minute performance of the play directed by John Counsell. The Times review of the broadcast stating: "Once more it was very effective, the wind-machine working overtime from the start, doors opening spontaneously as on the best-ordered stages, bells tinkling ominously ... and an excellent train flying madly by beyond the waiting-room windows." In 1939, a filmed version was produced in the Netherlands, De Spooktrein. The play was reprised and adapted during World War II and remade as The Ghost Train (1941), starring Arthur Askey as Tommy Gander and Richard Murdoch as Teddy Deakin. The communist villains of the original production were replaced with Nazi fifth columnists. In 1951, a vinyl recording of the play was produced and commercially released in England by Decca Records (Release catalogue No.LK4040), starring Claude Hulbert in the role of Teddy Deakin (whose brother Jack had played the role 20 years earlier in a cinema release), with Arnold Ridley as the Station Master. George Posford and Eric Maschwitz collaborated on Happy Holiday (1954), a musical version of the play. A German television version of the play entitled Der Geisterzug was produced in 1957. A film was made in Denmark entitled Spogelsestoget – Ghost Train International (1976). A radio version of The Ghost Train, adapted by Shaun McKenna, directed by Marion Nancarrow and starring Adam Godley as Teddy Deakin, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. It has subsequently been repeated on BBC Radio 7 in 2008, 2009, 2010 and on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011 and most recently on 3 January 2015. An audio version of the play was recorded by Fantom Films at the 'Oxygen Rooms' in Birmingham in 2010, directed/produced by Dexter O'Neill. Books A novel based upon the play entitled The Ghost