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 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, read more

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 more

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 proceedi read more

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 Van read more

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 more

If I would have the chance to star in an Hitchcock’s film, I would certainly have loved to star in The Lady Vanishes. The Lady Vanishes was, as I said, directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock in 1938. It was produced by Gainsborough Pictures. Along with The 39 Steps, it is considered one of hi read more

Like his earlier film, The 39 Steps (1935), Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938) straddles the line between mystery thriller and screwball romance. The sinister elements of this disappearing act staged on a moving train are matched, if not outweighed, by a pair of bickering amateur dete read more

Like his earlier film, The 39 Steps (1935), Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938) straddles the line between mystery thriller and screwball romance. The sinister elements of this disappearing act staged on a moving train are matched, if not outweighed, by a pair of bickering amateur dete read more

Like his earlier film, The 39 Steps (1935), Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938) straddles the line between mystery thriller and screwball romance. The sinister elements of this disappearing act staged on a moving train are matched, if not outweighed, by a pair of bickering amateur dete read more

(Spine #3) Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 06/Dec/2011 Region: Region A Length: 01:20:59 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 23.976fps, 26.4GB) Main Audio: English Mono (PCM 1.0, 48kHz, 1152kbps) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.34:1 Bitrate: 35Mbps Notes: This release is also available in read more

The Lady Vanishes Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on a story by Ethel Lina White 1938/UK Gainsborough Pictures Repeat viewing #127 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I simply love this movie and would rank it in Hitchcock’s top five pictur read more

Margaret Lockwood plays an American socialite in Europe in this Hitchcock mystery thriller. The night before she is to leave, Lockwood meets a kindly middle-aged lady who is fascinated with European music. The next day the two ladies sit together on the train to talk. Being a bit disoriented, Lockwo read more

Margaret Lockwood plays an American socialite in Europe in this Hitchcock mystery-thriller. The night before she is to leave, Lockwood meets a kindly middle-aged lady who is fascinated with European music. The next day the two ladies sit together on the train to talk. Being a bit disoriented, Lockwo read more

The Lady Vanishes is available for Netflix Instant Streaming. The Lady Vanishes is a strange film. I was a bit thrown off when I started watching the comedy thriller directed by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.  The Lady Vanishes starts on a mellow, bubbly introduction of various people wh read more

The Lady Vanishes and Berlin Express were made ten years apart, but both feature trains speeding across Europe. Not an uncommon device, a lot of films use it: James Bond or Murder on the Orient Express, for instance. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes was made in 1938 in England and set preceden read more

Arguably, The Lady Vanishes is the apex of Alfred Hitchcock’s body of work now known as “The British Period.” This film has all of British Hitchmarks – suspense, romance, psychological tension, Brit humor of the dry and ribald variety, and Hitch’s favorite film set, a train. The Lady Vanishes read more

On Saturday April 27th, 2013 I attended a screening of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes (1938). Leonard Maltin hosted and started off with asking the audience if any of us had never seen the film before. I was one of the people who raised their hands. This film has been on my to-be-seen l read more

… (1938) is the last film Alfred Hitchcock would make in England before his move to Los Angeles to start work in the Hollywood Studio system.  Defying some genre conventions, The Lady Vanishes is a fun film, as far as Hitchcock films go, and outright funny at times.  But a Hitchcock film it read more

The Lady Vanishes (1938)       Many people have an aversion to Alfred Hitchcock‘s British films, which I think have generally been classified as inferior to his American work and are typically relegated to cheap DVD compilations. I, on the other hand, truly enjoy a number of Hitchcock’s read more

My favorite Hitchcock film of all time. It mixes comedy with suspense extremely well. Set in the Swiss Alps, a bunch of tourists meet at a village the night before boarding a train the next morning. A young girl named Iris (the excellent Margaret Lockwood) meets a young student named Gilbert (wonde read more