Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)

Directors

Marcel Varnel

Cast

Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Percy Walsh, Dave O'Toole, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan

The story

After he messes up his job as wheeltapper, inept railway worker William Porter is, through family connections, given the job of station master at a remote and ramshackle Northern Irish railway station on the border with the then Irish Free State. Porter's co-workers are the elderly deputy station master, Harbottle, and the insolent young porter, Albert, who make a living by stealing goods in transit and swapping railway tickets for food. They regale Porter with tales of the deaths and disappearances of previous station masters – each apparently the victim of the ghost of One-Eyed Joe the Miller.

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