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The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Director(s) Alfred Hitchcock
Producer(s) Edward Black (uncredited)
Top Genres Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller/Suspense
Top Topics Spies
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The Lady Vanishes Overview:

The Lady Vanishes (1938) was a Comedy - Mystery Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Edward Black.

SYNOPSIS

The high point of Hitchcock's British films is a beguiling mystery story. A group of English travelers on a train across Europe includes a sweet old woman (Whitty)...for a while. Lockwood and Redgrave get pulled into a web of intrigue when, after Lockwood gets beaned on the head, the lady disappears, leaving only her name written in frost on the window. When they set out to find her, Lockwood's memory and sanity are questioned, particularly by a scheming Lukas. The Hitchcock touches, the sly wit, the unsuspecting hero plunged into a baffling situation, are already apparent. The special edition video includes a documentary on Hitchcock's famous cameo appearances. Remade in 1979 with Elliott Gould and Cybill Shepherd.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

The Lady Vanishes BlogHub Articles:

THE LADY VANISHES (1979)

By Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 26, 2023 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

THE LADY VANISHES is a 1979 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's much more famous (and better) 1938 film with the same title. The '79 THE LADY VANISHES is now best known as being the last theatrically-released feature that Hammer Films was involved in during the 20th Century. The head of Hammer, Michael Car... Read full article

Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes

By Stephen Reginald on Oct 10, 2020 From Classic Movie Man

Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes The Lady Vanishes (1938) is a British thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. The success of this film caught the attention of producer David O. Selznick. Selznick signed H... Read full article

Review: The Lady Vanishes (1938)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 16, 2018 From 4 Star Films

Though he would make Jamaica Inn the following year, it’s undoubtedly The Lady Vanishes that situated Hitchcock for the move to Hollywood as his last great British film showcasing once more his immense aptitude as a storyteller no matter the resources on hand. At the beginning of the proceedin... Read full article

REEL INFATUATION BLOGATHON: The dashing Gilbert of The Lady Vanishes (1938)

on Jun 23, 2017 From Caftan Woman

Who is the movie character that sets your heart aflutter? Font and Frock and Silver Scenes are hosting, for the second year, the Reel Infatuation Blogathon running from June 23 to June 25. Day 1 recap Day 2 recap Day 3 recap The delightful comic-thriller The Lady Vanishes was adapted by Sidn... Read full article

REEL INFATUATION BLOGATHON: The dashing Gilbert of The Lady Vanishes (1938)

By Caftan Woman on Jun 23, 2017 From Caftan Woman

Who is the movie character that sets your heart aflutter? Font and Frock and Silver Scenes are hosting, for the second year, the Reel Infatuation Blogathon running from June 23 to June 25. The delightful comic-thriller The Lady Vanishes was adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from Ethel L... Read full article

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The Lady Vanishes Quotes:

Charters: If only we hadn't missed that train at Budapest.
Caldicott: Well, I don't want to rub it in, but if you hadn't insisted on standing up until they'd finished their national anthem...
Charters: Yes, but you must show respect, Caldicott. If I'd known it was going to last twenty minutes...
Caldicott: It has always been my contention that the Hungarian Rhapsody is *not* their national anthem.
Dr. Hartz: And I am Dr. Egon Hartz; you may have heard of me.
Gilbert: Not the brain surgeon?
Dr. Hartz: Yes, the same.
Gilbert: Yes, you flew over to England the other day and operated on one of our cabinet ministers.
Dr. Hartz: Oh, yes.
Gilbert: Tell me, did you find anything?
Miss Froy: I never think you should judge any country by its politics. After all, we English are quite honest by nature, aren't we?
Gilbert: Can I help?
Iris Henderson: Only by going away.
Gilbert: No, no, no, no. My father always taught me, never desert a lady in trouble. He even carried that as far as marrying Mother.
Caldicott: [because the hotel is full, Charters and Caldicott have been forced to share the maid's room] They might at least have given us one each?
Charters: What?
Caldicott: The room at least.
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The Lady Vanishes Facts
The brief shot of a ferry bringing Iris and Gilbert back to England (presumably across the English Channel) also appears as an Irish Sea ferry in Will Hay's Oh, Mr. Porter!.
Orson Welles reportedly saw this film eleven times.
The cricket match that is being talked about in the movie by Charters (Basil Radford) is the description of the actual third Ashes test between England and Australia at Manchester in 1938. The result of the test match quite rightly was shown in the end through a newspaper headline - "Match abandoned due to rain".
Gilbert says he once drove "a miniature engine on the Dymchurch line". The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a real-life miniature (1/3 normal size) railway in southeast England, which in 2003 still uses steam locomotives and carries passengers over 13 miles of route.
The film debut of Catherine Lacey.
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