I watch this program every year- Just cannot get enough of these psychological thriller ghost stories.- very little blood and gore but highly effective of scaring the hell out of me. But would we have it any other way in a British ghost story production?
Fantastic book and tv adaptation, but after watching it i didn't sleep soundly for weeks. The phantom's face is probably the scariest thing i have ever seen
i first saw this many yrs ago.sure it was under the "christmas ghost story" thing they used to do on telly....scared the bjesus out of me.. followed next yr by the woman in black!!.....it's one of those.. its not what you see but what you don't!! great thanks
Absolutely brilliant! Remember watching this with my father one night over Christmas when I was about thirteen. Scared the living daylights out of me! Really glad to find it on here: thanks for posting!
the lack of attention to detail is awful!. Flat botom rail never existed when this period of time portrayed is shown much less the class 57 GWR pannier tank loco!
@colliecandle it only takes an anaorak to spot this type of detail and overlook the difficulties of production in the the 20th century. I've worked in the rail industry for 32yrs and am now a senior driver instructor. if I can ignore the 'detail' I guess you can as well.
@torontoboy45 No, not an 'anorak' - never have been, but I maintain if these people go to the expense of producing a period film, they should at least research the subject a little first. The rail? OK, I'll conceed on that, but the loco? UNFORGIVEABLE!
@colliecandle I wouldn't expect them to dig up the existing track and relay it just to make this movie. However, I was rather peeved that it was always the same numbered loco pulling the coaches!
@shiftwork Well, yes.exactly re the rail type..........however, the choice of a modern pannier tank is 'a bridge too far' There are many suitable engine types around that WOULD have fitted the time period for the setting of this [otherwise very good] film.
dickens may have been a genius but i dont think he was very good at writing songs, i saw the black and white musical film, oliver twist and dicken's lyrics like "i'll do anything, for you dear anything" are utterly awful. maybe they were catchy back in queen vics days, but compared to Lady GaGa and Lil Wayne of today's current pop fayre he should give up the ghost.
Charles Dickens didn't write those lyrics. If you are referring to the 1968 musical Oliver!, starring Mark Lester as Oliver Twist, Ron Moody as Fagin and Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes, the original music for the movie was written by Lionel Bart (including the song you mention).
@MrsNorris55 yes, i was refering to the film and yes i know that dickens died before the concept of filmscores so what does that tell you about how serious i was being, wow 6 thumbs downs, that's either 6 humourless idiots or teenagers to lazy to read dickens for thier homework
@MrsNorris55 true,true, it is a failing of mine, that i need to remedy, i have learnt from this mistake, that there are idiots in the world who might possibly say such nonsense, i assumed as my statement was so ridiculous , my intent would be realized, i also admit i sometimes keep a touch of ambiguity so people will bite, like yourself, i guess as long as one person gets me i am happy, but again all my error
i read the first chapter of little dorrit by dickens. i decided after reading the chapter, the only thing i have ever read of his, that i shall never read another sentence that he has put to print. Never has an author so fully created the scenes inside my mind, obviously a genius. I decided if i read any more it would affect how i wrote, i would pale immitation and thus what would be the point of being a 2nd rate. of those few pages read i still picked up many devices that i cant discard
he wrote this after the Staplehurst accident in 1865 where a train fell off a bridge under repair. Mr Dickens was in the first class carriage which remain on the bridge
Cant believe that people are slagging off this classic. Perhaps its just generation Y with spoiled taste brought up on Saw and Hostel and with a 2 second attention span.
I agree... although im young and im using this for studying. I also learnt how the victorion carryed out there horror... And they kept you in battle wanting to know whats next and creates great suspence
Woah, I never said I don't like the book! I just said I didn't like analysing it. I don't like analysing anything because every time I read/watch it afterwards I can't help but analyse it. I happen to be a huge fan and I think it's really well written thank you very much. And as for you saying I have a 2 second attention span, I'll have to disagree, I am a fan of a lot of the classics.
I watch it cos it's one of my favourite ghost stories (English coursework being several years behind me). I was reading it in bed last night and it sent shivers down my spine. It's actually one of the few things by Dickens I like. A pure classic.
One of my favorite Christmas Ghost stories from the BBC. Truely a classic, that shows that terror doesn't need blood and gore. I hope the BBC films more for this holiday season.
i was a signalman a few years back in a small box in the middle of nowwhere, it nearly sent me over the edge waiting for the bells in the middle of the night. Answer I LEFT
One more point: It's apt that Dickens wrote this story, because in reality he was involved in a real rail accident which killed several people as the train he was travelling in derailed on a viaduct due to the mistake of track workers. This accident apparently ended his life prematurely.
(The whole accident detailed in the book "Red for Danger" by R.T.C. Rolt)
A few glaring mistakes for an otherwise faithfull period piece - the biggest [literally] is the loco in this film. The GWR pannier tank class 57xx depicted wasn't even thought of at this time period, much less built and running! There are enough REAL victorian period loco's still in existance to have filled the role correctly. But otherwise, a good film
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the narrator's a ghost. why else would he be hanging around a signal box all day? the signalman has seen him before, he was one of the victims of a train crash in tunnel.
The story is open to interpretation: that's what makes it good: it's ambiguous. The story doesn't imply anything more than that the visitor takes an interest in a lonely man with whom he feels a kinship. mention is continually made of 'confinement' and 'dungeons' and of the visitor having been recently 'set free'. The Signalman is seeing the spirit of his own death. The narrator is it's harbinger but he's not a ghost in any proper sense. It's more a story of premonition and regret.
Anyway, I love horror, I have seen some really scary things in my time, so much so that little scares me anymore. So, a PG rated film from television in the 70s shouldn't scare me in the slightest. However it is absolutely terrifying and brilliant. Thankfully they didn't go for special effects with the ghost which is where most fail. The shadowy figure is brilliant because it is all in your imagination. Superb.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, Charles Dickens is definitely English. You must be thinking of someone else, Dickens wrote Great expectations, A tale of two cities, Oliver Twist etc and was around in Victorian England. He wrote the Signalman short story after being in a train crash which affected him greatly.
British TV at its very best! I remember watching this as a kid during the '80s and never, ever forgot it. BFI released it on DVD with two other classics from the BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas series, A Warning To The Curious and Whistle And I'll Come To You. If you like this then you'll love those two.
I really hope BFI release the other four from the series - The Stalls of Barchester, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Ash Tree, Stigma and The Ice House.
Davies' added dialogue about the tunnel collision is absolutely excellent and horrible. The Signal Man is expertly portrayed by Elliott as a man living a non-life, disappointed, isolated and powerless, waiting to be set free from his hell. The visitor heralds the end of the poor man's ordeal, arriving with the worlds that will eventually signal the man's death. This is how I interpret the tale, though it is perfectly suggestive enough to be read in any way possible.
The visitor has spent his life 'shut up within narrow limits' and is now free. The Signal Man was a university scholar but 'misused his chances, went down and never rose again'. He has 'made his own bed and he lay upon it'. The story fixes immovably on Dickens own horror of being extracted from education and imprisoned below his station in a bottle factory as a child, and his own father's incarceration in debtor's prison. The deep cutting is a dungeon, a nether world.
Dickens proves that he can write a real ghost story, not a parable like 'A Christmas Carol'. This is such a good adaptation, really mining the subtext of imprisonment and a wasted life. The two men are brought together by a shared experience of being confined. The story may be considered to be one of those tale in which the Signalman is in a sense, already dead, waiting for his actual death in a sort of nether world in his little box beside the yawing mouth of the tunnel.
My Englis teacher is making us write a summery on this story and i realy dont get it, i thaught watching the film on youtube would help, and it has so thanks to who ever posted it but im still so confuzed so if anyone fancys helping me XD anyway i should get writing ty x
I watched this with my wife at Christmas a few years ago and must say it was the creepiest thing I've watched. Excellent story, wonderful direction and a fantastic performance from D Elliot. AND, she thought it was superb as well, and she isn't a fan of this type of stuff.
Good old Charlie Dickens, the master of ghost stories. Did you know he used to go to the underworld to 'study' the crims? Interesting cat Dickens is. He inspired me in writing ghost stories, him and MR James...read The Rats...scraed the fucking crap out of me LOL
I remember watching this when i was a kid it really scared me when you saw the ghosts face at the end and the whole thing in general scared me.. Wasn't there another one where this guy grave robbed and stole some treasure or something and the corpses ghost hunted him down and ended up bashing his skull in with a shovel?
i remember watching this when it was originally shown on BBC1 and remember thinking how eerie and atmospheric it was. The face at the end terrified me though i was only ten.
So when it was repeated recently on BBC4 I recommended it to my teenage niece and nephew and warned them of the scary face.
their reaction to the face was priceless. They simply rolled about laughing. I guess kids are made of sterner stuff today.
A real pleasure to find this again. I had it on video but lost it in a fire so haven`t seen it for a long time.I always associate it with late dark nights near Christmas.Atmospheric and beautifully acted,I really don`t think it could be done any better
I had to watch this in English the other day. But everyone else in the classroom was being so loud that the teacher turned it off, and we had to copy out of books. So I thought I might find it on youtube. And here it is, thank you very much for uploading this.
Thanks for posting this; never saw it before! This is a favorite ghost story of mine - partly because of the trains, yes, but it's really very psychologically creepy. The print version goes into fascinating depth about Victorian class ethics &c., makes for a great read. This TV adaption is done very well.
this is an absoloute classic - I have it on video from when it was on BBC2 in the late 80's - I'm not sure if it's ever been on since but it should be put on again. one of the eeriest short films ever!
Nice adaptation of probably the best ghost story ever written. BUT, your blurb is a real spoiler! The twist at the end is what really haunts, and you ruin it by billboarding it from the start... Please reconsider!
Thanks for posting this, I have lost count on how many times I watched this since. Great movie and actors.
marxraven 3 weeks ago
Watching this cuz of CIE literature course :D
VainCape 1 month ago
I watch this program every year- Just cannot get enough of these psychological thriller ghost stories.- very little blood and gore but highly effective of scaring the hell out of me. But would we have it any other way in a British ghost story production?
creolelady182 2 months ago
Fantastic book and tv adaptation, but after watching it i didn't sleep soundly for weeks. The phantom's face is probably the scariest thing i have ever seen
TalonMercenary 2 months ago
I originally watched this for my GCSE English Language coursework, but still watch it today - more than 4 years later.
Coldheart9009 3 months ago
Lol the last time i saw this it was about 1980 ish i think it was on middle english for schools BBC2 and it was very cool :D
blackcountryme 3 months ago
THANKS 4 this :) freaky!
sim0b 4 months ago
An absolute classic with brilliant acting! I have watched this over and over and it still has the same effect.
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This is my english homework xD
rorogirl12 5 months ago
Anyone else think the intro credits here inspired Thomas the Tank Engine's intro credits?
Jingleboy14 5 months ago
14 months ago we were watching this in English lesson. How time has flown by.
TheShamsulOO7 8 months ago
thanks for bringing back these marvellous memories off a forgotten childhood....
stovedancer 9 months ago
I always enjoyed hearing this story when I was young, left me in a state if freight every time. Thanks for posting!
Rachelscomment 9 months ago
i first saw this many yrs ago.sure it was under the "christmas ghost story" thing they used to do on telly....scared the bjesus out of me.. followed next yr by the woman in black!!.....it's one of those.. its not what you see but what you don't!! great thanks
rhylmark 9 months ago
sweet merciful mother
thiniceco 10 months ago
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This is brilliant, I saw this more than 30 years ago on TV when I was a kid. It scared me then, but I loved it. Thanks so much for uploading this.
blueleadguitar 11 months ago
This is brilliant, I saw this more than 30 years ago on TV when I was a kid. It scared me then, but I loved it. Thanks so much for uploading tnhis.
blueleadguitar 11 months ago
Thumbs up if Ms. Kelliher sent you here!
StEaLtHMel0n 11 months ago
poigniant
zincfreud 1 year ago
waita minute where the hell is the mans beard!
supermonkeywtf09 1 year ago
english course work IG
supermonkeywtf09 1 year ago
@jadiedresser
change the quality and turn up the volume if you can't hear anything
htcfagg 1 year ago
My name is Mike from LA Although there busizz4me.info
hanromero 1 year ago
thumb up if u are just watching this to do english course work
apocklington1 1 year ago 105
@apocklington1 hahhahahahhahahhahahahah
nexttosmelly 1 year ago
@apocklington1 i got told to watch it from my english teacher
funny how people only watch it for school hahaha
kirstyn93 1 year ago
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@apocklington1
Don't they teach you how to use capital letters in your English class?
6musky 4 months ago
where is the sound on this?! its mute!
jadiedresser 1 year ago
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WKCmars 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant! Remember watching this with my father one night over Christmas when I was about thirteen. Scared the living daylights out of me! Really glad to find it on here: thanks for posting!
SamuraiQuester 1 year ago 2
@SamuraiQuester same here it was on last thing on christmas day,i saw it with my father,chilling stuff
bangform 1 year ago
can any1 give me a summary of this weird story i need it
furqanandmatt 1 year ago
Great story.
sabine1470 1 year ago
the lack of attention to detail is awful!. Flat botom rail never existed when this period of time portrayed is shown much less the class 57 GWR pannier tank loco!
colliecandle 1 year ago
@colliecandle it only takes an anaorak to spot this type of detail and overlook the difficulties of production in the the 20th century. I've worked in the rail industry for 32yrs and am now a senior driver instructor. if I can ignore the 'detail' I guess you can as well.
torontoboy45 1 year ago
@torontoboy45 No, not an 'anorak' - never have been, but I maintain if these people go to the expense of producing a period film, they should at least research the subject a little first. The rail? OK, I'll conceed on that, but the loco? UNFORGIVEABLE!
colliecandle 1 year ago
@colliecandle I wouldn't expect them to dig up the existing track and relay it just to make this movie. However, I was rather peeved that it was always the same numbered loco pulling the coaches!
shiftwork 1 year ago
@shiftwork Well, yes.exactly re the rail type..........however, the choice of a modern pannier tank is 'a bridge too far' There are many suitable engine types around that WOULD have fitted the time period for the setting of this [otherwise very good] film.
colliecandle 1 year ago
the book is a bugga....this is a course work 4 us and its sooo hard :@
EmmaCee01 1 year ago
Ive Loved this ever since i first saw it in 1976......Thanks for uploading hintonadmiral
jcw001 1 year ago
thank you so much for this.
It brings back memories.
LennySoldier 1 year ago
Y have you disabled embedding??!!
BackStreetGlitches 1 year ago
Creepy stuff! But great story
ps3lov3er 2 years ago
Love it, used to play in and around this tunnel growing up, creepy place day or night especially when you know your not supposed to be playing there!
kecke08 2 years ago 2
Masterpiece!
amicus82 2 years ago
their
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
Our theatre company is currently performing The Signalman, for schools.
fattyballaty 2 years ago
what a horrible portray xd
95carloos 2 years ago
dickens may have been a genius but i dont think he was very good at writing songs, i saw the black and white musical film, oliver twist and dicken's lyrics like "i'll do anything, for you dear anything" are utterly awful. maybe they were catchy back in queen vics days, but compared to Lady GaGa and Lil Wayne of today's current pop fayre he should give up the ghost.
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
@bryngOneOn
Charles Dickens didn't write those lyrics. If you are referring to the 1968 musical Oliver!, starring Mark Lester as Oliver Twist, Ron Moody as Fagin and Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes, the original music for the movie was written by Lionel Bart (including the song you mention).
MrsNorris55 2 years ago
@MrsNorris55 yes, i was refering to the film and yes i know that dickens died before the concept of filmscores so what does that tell you about how serious i was being, wow 6 thumbs downs, that's either 6 humourless idiots or teenagers to lazy to read dickens for thier homework
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
Or someone who doesn't understand how to get humour across properly on the internet, where one cannot see the person's face or hear their voice ...
MrsNorris55 2 years ago
@MrsNorris55 true,true, it is a failing of mine, that i need to remedy, i have learnt from this mistake, that there are idiots in the world who might possibly say such nonsense, i assumed as my statement was so ridiculous , my intent would be realized, i also admit i sometimes keep a touch of ambiguity so people will bite, like yourself, i guess as long as one person gets me i am happy, but again all my error
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
watching a film portrayal is another matter as the genius will be lost by less competent story tellers, so i can watch just for the plot
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
i read the first chapter of little dorrit by dickens. i decided after reading the chapter, the only thing i have ever read of his, that i shall never read another sentence that he has put to print. Never has an author so fully created the scenes inside my mind, obviously a genius. I decided if i read any more it would affect how i wrote, i would pale immitation and thus what would be the point of being a 2nd rate. of those few pages read i still picked up many devices that i cant discard
bryngOneOn 2 years ago
he wrote this after the Staplehurst accident in 1865 where a train fell off a bridge under repair. Mr Dickens was in the first class carriage which remain on the bridge
HA1LILPALAZZO 2 years ago
Its Denholm Elliot. Room with a View to mention but one. Sadly no longer with us.
Shuna1001 2 years ago
Ok this is driving me nuts - WHERE do I know that actor from? The gent in the uniform, I mean.
jjobie 2 years ago
Denholm Elliot he did lots of stage and screen before he died...very good actor.
lndac02 2 years ago
he's wallace- from wallace and gromit
thesmeezone 2 years ago
Is writing an essay about the story for english :] thanks for uploading great help!!
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sweetie0x 2 years ago
omg same !!! could u like get back to meeeeeee !! i gota do an english esay too .. it would be good to have feedback from each other! Thanks!
sweetie0x 2 years ago
of course! :]
brianbry93 2 years ago
i used to sit on top of that bridge as a kid and watch the trains go by , never knew it was famous lol
JimmyCanty 2 years ago
lol really
sweetie0x 2 years ago
I have to study the book, urhhh! i hate english!
shannoncox95 2 years ago
Cant believe that people are slagging off this classic. Perhaps its just generation Y with spoiled taste brought up on Saw and Hostel and with a 2 second attention span.
cadwallader55 2 years ago
I agree... although im young and im using this for studying. I also learnt how the victorion carryed out there horror... And they kept you in battle wanting to know whats next and creates great suspence
sweetie0x 2 years ago
Woah, I never said I don't like the book! I just said I didn't like analysing it. I don't like analysing anything because every time I read/watch it afterwards I can't help but analyse it. I happen to be a huge fan and I think it's really well written thank you very much. And as for you saying I have a 2 second attention span, I'll have to disagree, I am a fan of a lot of the classics.
shannoncox95 2 years ago 12
Pulling things apart does tend to ruin them. Sorry. Point well made.
cadwallader55 2 years ago
@cadwallader55 I agree, people want instant gratification of blood,torture and other nasties, they do not have time for this!
somkiddy 1 year ago
seriously the only reason why people watch this is for english coursework lol
imurcutie94 2 years ago
I watch it cos it's one of my favourite ghost stories (English coursework being several years behind me). I was reading it in bed last night and it sent shivers down my spine. It's actually one of the few things by Dickens I like. A pure classic.
theestever 2 years ago
Steam - so atmospheric. This could never work with diesel or electric.
campainr 2 years ago
i hate english coursework grrrr
william555000 2 years ago 2
lol
ohhhthatslyksowierd 2 years ago
One of my favorite Christmas Ghost stories from the BBC. Truely a classic, that shows that terror doesn't need blood and gore. I hope the BBC films more for this holiday season.
MsTimelady71 2 years ago
Many, many dimensions to this stunning production.
Two stunningly brilliant actors.Their conversations are hypnotic.
This rates 5 stars for atmosphere.Its a classic.
trotter23 2 years ago 3
They don't make them like they used to.
vintageification 2 years ago
I watched this in my English class at school, and everyone in the class was screaming, even the horror movie fanatics!
libloiety 2 years ago
my class watched it also!
07940657202 2 years ago
same here brethren what country?
ohhhthatslyksowierd 2 years ago
This adaptation scared me senseless when I saw it.
The mood is beyond unnerving.
pegleg747 2 years ago
Is that the chap who plays Dr. Brodie in the Indiana Jones films?
countvoncount13 2 years ago
Yes :)
springfairy1 2 years ago
ye is it
helikos1 2 years ago
i was a signalman a few years back in a small box in the middle of nowwhere, it nearly sent me over the edge waiting for the bells in the middle of the night. Answer I LEFT
johnlong50 2 years ago 3
I think this is a great adaptation and well acted. The BBC are very good at these kinds of period pieces.
Maryonpark 2 years ago
One more point: It's apt that Dickens wrote this story, because in reality he was involved in a real rail accident which killed several people as the train he was travelling in derailed on a viaduct due to the mistake of track workers. This accident apparently ended his life prematurely.
(The whole accident detailed in the book "Red for Danger" by R.T.C. Rolt)
eastindiaman 2 years ago
A few glaring mistakes for an otherwise faithfull period piece - the biggest [literally] is the loco in this film. The GWR pannier tank class 57xx depicted wasn't even thought of at this time period, much less built and running! There are enough REAL victorian period loco's still in existance to have filled the role correctly. But otherwise, a good film
eastindiaman 2 years ago
Dónde puedo conseguir éste corto en castellano o subtitulado? Gracias
jorgelynk 2 years ago
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Are these two blokes fudge packers or what? Who goes back to a signal box in the middle of the night and back to his hotel early morning!!!
131926jt 2 years ago
Denholm Elliott was a pernicious sodomite
randomdave30 2 years ago
I've seen this movie..another great video vampyr!!!!
julierex 2 years ago
its not a vampire its a doppleganger check em out
ninawillams 2 years ago
the narrator's a ghost. why else would he be hanging around a signal box all day? the signalman has seen him before, he was one of the victims of a train crash in tunnel.
pregiscregis 2 years ago
Yeah that's what I was thinking too. And the fact that he just suddenly came, because why else would he want to keep visiting a signalman?
MissTonix 2 years ago
The story is open to interpretation: that's what makes it good: it's ambiguous. The story doesn't imply anything more than that the visitor takes an interest in a lonely man with whom he feels a kinship. mention is continually made of 'confinement' and 'dungeons' and of the visitor having been recently 'set free'. The Signalman is seeing the spirit of his own death. The narrator is it's harbinger but he's not a ghost in any proper sense. It's more a story of premonition and regret.
steerpike66 2 years ago
good analysis. thanks for the insight.
pregiscregis 2 years ago
Lol im reading "sotries of ourselves" and this story is in it....! i'd rather watch this than read it...!! lol!!
Maalexandramv 2 years ago
i'm reading it too, so darn boring
watching is 10 times better haha
litalovesdaniel 2 years ago
hahaha lol
Maalexandramv 2 years ago
We Watched This Today In English At School And Im In year 7, Loadsa Girls Wer Screamin at th ghosts, I wast I Just Covered My Eyes lol, Gud Film Tho
cocohinch 2 years ago
this is one of the gothic stories i am writing a rather large essay on haha, it is quite good actually : )
xalex94 2 years ago
Anyway, I love horror, I have seen some really scary things in my time, so much so that little scares me anymore. So, a PG rated film from television in the 70s shouldn't scare me in the slightest. However it is absolutely terrifying and brilliant. Thankfully they didn't go for special effects with the ghost which is where most fail. The shadowy figure is brilliant because it is all in your imagination. Superb.
Amnesiac1986 2 years ago
when i heard it for the first time i imagined it as just a shadowy figure anyway so this is great
bumbledown08 2 years ago
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makitty93 2 years ago
I love british storyes
KISTOVI 3 years ago
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makitty93 2 years ago
hhehehehe.. well.. it is still great story..
:)
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makitty93 2 years ago
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, Charles Dickens is definitely English. You must be thinking of someone else, Dickens wrote Great expectations, A tale of two cities, Oliver Twist etc and was around in Victorian England. He wrote the Signalman short story after being in a train crash which affected him greatly.
Amnesiac1986 2 years ago
What a sad combination of arrogance and ignorance you have.
NathanielFowles 2 years ago
Charles dickens is english you do know that
bumbledown08 2 years ago
makitty93, you're a fuckwit
pregiscregis 2 years ago
you my freind are a twat
crazedsabbathfan73 2 years ago
i have to do this for GCSE
vampressprincess53 3 years ago
same man fukin busllshit also a couple other stoys
illegaLBulgarian 3 years ago
I don't see the point really. How does know how Dickens create tension help me in life?!?!
vampressprincess53 3 years ago
British TV at its very best! I remember watching this as a kid during the '80s and never, ever forgot it. BFI released it on DVD with two other classics from the BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas series, A Warning To The Curious and Whistle And I'll Come To You. If you like this then you'll love those two.
I really hope BFI release the other four from the series - The Stalls of Barchester, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Ash Tree, Stigma and The Ice House.
stadioazteca 3 years ago 3
A great watch on xmas eve night, thanks for posting!
1stdrive 3 years ago 2
the perfect xmas ghost story
destructivedandy 3 years ago 2
These days it would be "where's your ticket? Haven't got one? That'll be £30 on the spot".
fremlinskent 3 years ago 3
Davies' added dialogue about the tunnel collision is absolutely excellent and horrible. The Signal Man is expertly portrayed by Elliott as a man living a non-life, disappointed, isolated and powerless, waiting to be set free from his hell. The visitor heralds the end of the poor man's ordeal, arriving with the worlds that will eventually signal the man's death. This is how I interpret the tale, though it is perfectly suggestive enough to be read in any way possible.
steerpike66 3 years ago 3
The visitor has spent his life 'shut up within narrow limits' and is now free. The Signal Man was a university scholar but 'misused his chances, went down and never rose again'. He has 'made his own bed and he lay upon it'. The story fixes immovably on Dickens own horror of being extracted from education and imprisoned below his station in a bottle factory as a child, and his own father's incarceration in debtor's prison. The deep cutting is a dungeon, a nether world.
steerpike66 3 years ago 8
Dickens proves that he can write a real ghost story, not a parable like 'A Christmas Carol'. This is such a good adaptation, really mining the subtext of imprisonment and a wasted life. The two men are brought together by a shared experience of being confined. The story may be considered to be one of those tale in which the Signalman is in a sense, already dead, waiting for his actual death in a sort of nether world in his little box beside the yawing mouth of the tunnel.
steerpike66 3 years ago 2
Doss! I haven't seen this since I was in Year Seven... I'm now in Year Thirteen :)
teenageatheist 3 years ago
Impressive.
TheRipp3RPD 3 years ago
which one is the narrator ??
xcoolxgirlxrocksx 3 years ago
Where was this filmed and what tunnel is it?
andrewbarrett42 3 years ago
Filming Locations:Birchen Coppice Cutting and Tunnel Mouth, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England,
hintonadmiral 3 years ago
Cheers mate.
andrewbarrett42 3 years ago
My Englis teacher is making us write a summery on this story and i realy dont get it, i thaught watching the film on youtube would help, and it has so thanks to who ever posted it but im still so confuzed so if anyone fancys helping me XD anyway i should get writing ty x
xXEminemXGirlXx 3 years ago
Your English teacher should get to work on your spelling, quite frankly.
Muskadash 3 years ago 2
HAHAHA x 1,000,000
ForexFrenzy 3 years ago
i got to do a summary too for my english teacher .... are you in my class. lol im just as confused too
jessica7036 3 years ago
Classic BBC ghost story,i've always loved this. Denholm Elliots performance is simply superb what a fine fine actor he was....
beacboy61 3 years ago
this program still scares me and im 21 now. what a big baby i am.
MCshlthead 3 years ago
we have to study this for our gcse's
Kerrybeno 3 years ago
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emiliogirbal 3 years ago
Woman in Black is very creepy. I too recommend it!
ShroudedFury 3 years ago
I agree I have been promising to watch it again but the courage has not returned. It creeped me out properly, the way she/the ghost just stood there.
serialdad 3 years ago
The SignalMan, Great !
vampyr1960 3 years ago
I watched this with my wife at Christmas a few years ago and must say it was the creepiest thing I've watched. Excellent story, wonderful direction and a fantastic performance from D Elliot. AND, she thought it was superb as well, and she isn't a fan of this type of stuff.
whitbywailer 3 years ago
I recommend watching the woman in black, creepy and very effective!!
buzznbailes 3 years ago
Good old Charlie Dickens, the master of ghost stories. Did you know he used to go to the underworld to 'study' the crims? Interesting cat Dickens is. He inspired me in writing ghost stories, him and MR James...read The Rats...scraed the fucking crap out of me LOL
bigbadreddog 3 years ago
oohhh,m,myesm,m,i need this too,.,in my coursework,.,.,tnxxxx
christ061291 4 years ago
tnx a lot..i really needed this...had to a coursework on this!!!!
we watched some other video about this..bt tht ws tottaly differnt...so yh..tnx!!
JusMe159 4 years ago
teacher....
candyxnell 4 years ago
Oh my god!! thanks from Spain!! I was looking it because my teacher wants we read it!!
thanks once more!
AleLauretano 4 years ago
...teacher wants us to....read it...
constanzavictrix 4 years ago
cool 2 people in the same class!
yusezz 4 years ago 6
I remember watching this when i was a kid it really scared me when you saw the ghosts face at the end and the whole thing in general scared me.. Wasn't there another one where this guy grave robbed and stole some treasure or something and the corpses ghost hunted him down and ended up bashing his skull in with a shovel?
TacticalSiege 4 years ago
Yes its called "a warning to the curious"I have it on video and am trying to put it on my computer
theoldgalah 4 years ago
i remember watching this when it was originally shown on BBC1 and remember thinking how eerie and atmospheric it was. The face at the end terrified me though i was only ten.
So when it was repeated recently on BBC4 I recommended it to my teenage niece and nephew and warned them of the scary face.
their reaction to the face was priceless. They simply rolled about laughing. I guess kids are made of sterner stuff today.
punditpete 4 years ago
First saw this back in 1976 when i was 18 yrs old and it scared me to death.
It was shown again on BBC4 last night and it still scared me.
Absolutely brilliant tv.
airscrew46 4 years ago
A real pleasure to find this again. I had it on video but lost it in a fire so haven`t seen it for a long time.I always associate it with late dark nights near Christmas.Atmospheric and beautifully acted,I really don`t think it could be done any better
FEWSTONER 4 years ago
Good old Denholm Elliot. One of my favourite actors - a supremely talented and much-missed man.
bluegrasslass 4 years ago
I had to watch this in English the other day. But everyone else in the classroom was being so loud that the teacher turned it off, and we had to copy out of books. So I thought I might find it on youtube. And here it is, thank you very much for uploading this.
Blossomgirl14 4 years ago
Thanks for posting this; never saw it before! This is a favorite ghost story of mine - partly because of the trains, yes, but it's really very psychologically creepy. The print version goes into fascinating depth about Victorian class ethics &c., makes for a great read. This TV adaption is done very well.
aeolus925 4 years ago
One of the best from the 'A ghost story for Christmas' TV series in the 1970's. Thanks for posting
bin1960 4 years ago
this is an absoloute classic - I have it on video from when it was on BBC2 in the late 80's - I'm not sure if it's ever been on since but it should be put on again. one of the eeriest short films ever!
niches01 4 years ago
Eerie! Thanks! I loved the scenery.
mae1958 4 years ago
Excellent adaptation- this is what true horror is. They don't make em like they used to.
GreatUncleEscobar 4 years ago
I have this on DVD. I watched it with my sister and we were both pleasantly freaked out!
booklover181 4 years ago
Nice adaptation of probably the best ghost story ever written. BUT, your blurb is a real spoiler! The twist at the end is what really haunts, and you ruin it by billboarding it from the start... Please reconsider!
Pathtith 4 years ago