The Lady Vanishes

1938
UK
1h 35min
PG

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty

Hitchcock's wonderfully entertaining pan-European railway thriller feels as fresh today as it must have back in the appeasement years. Beginning in a fictitious Eastern European principality, an old lady does a disappearing act on a train. Suspicious, a young man and woman investigate. Though often dismissed as one of Hitchcock's more lightweight films, this was and is an allegory of Britain when Blimpish complacency was believed to be the best deterrent to war.

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The Lady Vanishes

31 Jan 2008

(U) 95min

Originally released in September 1938, a few days before Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane at Heston airport waving the stationary which was to end his political career, Alfred Hitchcock’s splendidly entertaining pan-European railway caper looks…

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