The Signalman

Originally written by Charles Dickens and published in the 1866 Christmas edition of his own weekly literary journal 'All the Year Round', 'The Signal-Man' is the story of the three appearances of ghostly figure to the solitary occupant of a signal box situated on a deep cut railway line at the mouth of a tunnel.  Each manifestation of the figure with its call of "Halloa! Below there!" has preceded an accident on that particular stretch of the railway line.

This adaptation was made in 1976 for the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand and features Denholm Elliott as the haunted signal-man and Bernard Lloyd as the visitor to whom he relates his story.  As with many of the other stories it was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark who maintains an intimate sense of encroaching danger ably assisted by powerful performances from the two men, Elliott in particular.

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