Talking Scarlet

Arnold Ridley’s classic comedy thriller starring Sophie Powles, Jeffery Holland, David Janson and Judy Buxton.

A group of travellers – including a newlywed couple, an estranged couple, a self-indulgent young dandy and an elderly spinster with a parrot – are stranded in the waiting room of an isolated railway station on a dark and stormy night. Each reacts with various degrees of credulity to the station master’s warning of death to anyone who sets eyes on the ghostly train that haunts the line.

Ridley’s inspiration came after becoming stranded overnight at Mangotsfield Station in Bristol, now a disused station on the Midland Railway main line.