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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Traveling aboard a transcontinental train, young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) becomes alarmed when an acquaintance, elderly governess Miss Froy (Dame Mae Whitty), suddenly vanishes. Inexplicably, all the other passengers deny having seen the woman. So Iris turns to her lone ally -- handsome music scholar Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) -- for help. As the two search for clues to Froy's disappearance, they uncloak a sinister plot.
| Release Date: | November 1st, 1938 |
| Running Time: | 97 minutes |
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This was a charming early Hitchcock comedy about a woman (Margaret Lockwood) who gets hit on the head and is cared for by an elderly Englishwoman (Dame May Witty), who mysteriously vanishes on a train. It was, in fact, his last British film before heading to America and Hollywood.
After she vanishes, everyone denies ever...
(complete The Lady Vanishes review by Movie Addict)
| The Lady Vanishes Movie Review by Jarrod (6/3/2008) |
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'The Lady Vanishes' is probably the best of the films made by Hitchcock in his native England. Its only real competition is The 39 Steps, which preceded it by three years. This is a beguiling and intriguing mystery, set in the fictional country of Bandrika (I think that's the name), which is most likely modeled after...
(complete The Lady Vanishes review by Jarrod)
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