Arnold Ripley is far better known as an actor than a playwright. For years, he was the dormouse of Dad's Army, Private Charles Godfrey, always politely asking to be excused duty. Ironically, it was ...

Arthur Askey was a diminutive British comedian, born in 1900. He began his professional career as a music hall performer in 1924, but it wasn't until 1938's Band Wagon (which lasted a full five ...

Suspense builds at a railroad station, where a group of stranded passengers await the arrival of the phantom of the so-called "ghost train," leading to both spookiness and laughs.