Oh, Mr Porter!

Oh, Mr Porter 1937 is a British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not Hays most commercially successful although it grossed 500,000 at the box office, it is probably his bestknown film to modern audiences. It is widely acclaimed as the best of Hays work, and a classic of its genre. The film had its first public showing in November 1937 and went on general release onJanuary 1938. The plot of Oh, Mr Porter was loosely based on the Arnold Ridley play The Ghost Train. The title was taken from Oh Mr Porter, a music hall song.

After taking the ferry from England to Northern Ireland, Porter is aghast when he discovers how isolated the station is. It is situated out in the countryside, two miles crosscountry from the nearest bus stop. To make matters worse, local legend has it that the ghost of OneEyed Joe the Miller haunts the line and, as a result, noone will go near the station after dark.Porters coworkers at the station are the elderly deputy stationmaster, Harbottle Moore Marriott, and an overweight, insolent young porter, Albert Graham Moffatt, who make a living by stealing goods in transit and swapping railway tickets for food. They welcome Porter to his new job by regaling him with tales of the deaths and disappearances of previous stationmasters each apparently the victim of the curse of OneEyed Joe. ........

Source: Wikipedia