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The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Comedy | 97 minutes
3,57 483 votes

Genre: Comedy / Mystery

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave and Paul Lukas

IMDb score: 7,7 (58.379)

Releasedate: 7 October 1938

The Lady Vanishes plot

"Spies! Playing the game of love - and sudden death!"

The Trans-Europe train has to stop due to bad weather. Travelers are accommodated in a hotel right next to the station. Iris Henderson meets an old woman, Mrs. Froy, who later disappears when they are on the road again. The musician Gilbert decides to help her find Froy.

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Iris Matilda Henderson

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Eric Todhunter

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Dievegge

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Although it is set in the fictional Central European Bandrika, it is shot entirely in England. Different languages are spoken, from German to gibberish. A military railway in Hampshire has been used, painted mountains as a backdrop and edited landscapes whizzing past. For the beginning, in which the camera descends to a mountain village, a miniature village has been built, with a fake car that is pulled on a string. The two whether or not poisoned glasses are perhaps really extra large and give the viewer the feeling that they want to warn the drinkers.

It's an old-fashioned adventure involving spies and a mysterious disappearance. The macguffin is very unlikely: what message of state interest could be hidden in such an innocent tune? Madeleine Carroll plays the young adventuress who is initially not taken seriously by anyone. Michael Redgrave comes across as a jerk at first, but adds a romantic note. The comedy duo is a parody of men who never stop talking about sports. Yet the show is stolen by Dame May Whitty, who plays one of the most beautiful elderly roles ever. Her Miss Froy argues for more courtesy between people because it makes life so much easier. Hitchcock's cameo comes exceptionally late, when he's surrounded by people carrying heavy suitcases with a potty purse. This cocktail of suspense, humor, romance and small human qualities remains a joy to watch.

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Filmkriebel

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This is clearly a light-hearted Hitchcock film. There are some exciting scenes as well as comic ones. Take that scene at the hotel, where Gilbert is kicked out of his room for nighttime noise and is going to give Iris a taste of his own medicine. Or the punch line at the end with the two guys who want to return to England as soon as possible for a cricket match.
Mainly a mystery film in which an old lady disappears in a train. It's cleverly played with the fact that Iris was punched in the head before checking in on the train, leaving open the possibility that she is suffering from amnesia. This is also a pretty exciting part because you can't guess what's going on. I found the climax on the train a bit less. Conclusion : Reasonable but not masterful.

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mrklm

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Hitchcock directs, but the quality and success of this delightful crime mystery is almost entirely due to Sidney Gilliat and Frank Lauder, who use a dramatic train journey as a metaphor for the political relations in Europe in 1938 and populate the train with sharply sketched characters. The hardheaded British cricket fans Caldicott [Nauton Wayne] and Carstairs [Basil Radford] even got their own movie series from it, the whole cast shines. Margaret Lockwood is the only train passenger who knows that an old, apparently harmless woman [Edna May Whitty] has disappeared without a trace. But because all the other passengers in the same compartment continue to deny as hard as she can, she begins to doubt her own memories. Until fellow passenger Gilbert [Michael Redgrave] finds concrete evidence and supports her decision. An intelligent scenario with a fantastic denouement, in other words a pleasure from start to finish.

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