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Release Date:
1 November 1938 (USA)
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Tagline:
Spies! Playing the game of love - and sudden death!
Plot:
While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. full summary | full synopsis
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Train
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Governess
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Dining Car
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Double Cross
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Concussion
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Awards:
1 win
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(5 articles)
Glorious 39 | Film review
(From The Guardian - Film News. 21 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)
Hammer Horror to Ink Books With Blood
(From Atomic Popcorn. 14 October 2009, 6:13 AM, PDT)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 21 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)
Hammer Horror to Ink Books With Blood
(From Atomic Popcorn. 14 October 2009, 6:13 AM, PDT)
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Delightful comedy thriller, the best of Hitchcock's British films
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Margaret Lockwood | ... | Iris Henderson |
| Michael Redgrave | ... | Gilbert |
| Paul Lukas | ... | Dr. Hartz |
| Dame May Whitty | ... | Miss Froy |
| Cecil Parker | ... | Mr. Todhunter |
| Linden Travers | ... | 'Mrs.' Todhunter |
| Naunton Wayne | ... | Caldicott |
| Basil Radford | ... | Charters |
| Mary Clare | ... | Baroness |
| Emile Boreo | ... | Boris - Hotel Manager |
| Googie Withers | ... | Blanche |
| Sally Stewart | ... | Julie |
| Philip Leaver | ... | Signor Doppo |
| Selma Vaz Dias | ... | Signora Doppo (as Zelma Vas Dias) |
| Catherine Lacey | ... | The Nun (as Catherine Lacy) |
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Runtime:
96 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Full Range Recording System)
Certification:
Portugal:M/12 |
Finland:K-15 (2006) |
USA:Approved (PCA #02144) |
South Korea:15 (2003) |
USA:Passed |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:G (original rating) |
Australia:PG (alternate rating) |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-12 |
Germany:12 |
Peru:14 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A |
Canada:PG
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Although he uses the fictitious Bandrikan language when speaking to his staff, at the end of the phone conversation in which he conveys Iris's room service order for "champagne", Boris, the harassed hotel manager, exclaims, "Oy vey is mir", a Yiddish expression meaning "woe is me."
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Continuity: After Gilbert wakes Iris from her drugged state/faint her engagement ring is missing. In the next cut when they are standing her ring reappears.
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Quotes:
'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter:
[having been given the choice between a double or two single rooms, Eric Todhunter has hastily chosen the two singles] You might at least have asked which one I preferred.
Eric Todhunter: Please Margaret, a double room in a place like this?
'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter: You weren't so particular in Paris last fall.
Eric Todhunter: That was different then, the exhibition was at its height.
'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter: I realise that now. There's no need to rub it in!
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Eric Todhunter: Please Margaret, a double room in a place like this?
'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter: You weren't so particular in Paris last fall.
Eric Todhunter: That was different then, the exhibition was at its height.
'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter: I realise that now. There's no need to rub it in!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Clara et les Chics Types (1981)
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Soundtrack:
Colonel Bogey March
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How does the movie end?A Note Regarding Spoilers
Is it true that the story is based on an actual incident?
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The Lady Vanishes is a wonderful piece of fluff, the culmination of Hitchcock's British period, after which he started to explore more serious themes in his American films. Of course the basic plot is absurd, centering around the most ridiculous way to get a secret message through one can think of, and why did.....o well, never mind, it's the handling that matters, and Hitchcock achieves a near perfect balance here of humour and suspense that he only really matched on one other film, North By Northwest.
The film spends 20 or so minutes just introducing it's characters, but they are all so great, especially the two men so obsessed with returning to a cricket match that a case of disappearance and possibly murder is relatively unimportant, that it hardly matters, while Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood simply sparkle as the main couple who of course initially can't stand each other. Once on the train, the ensuring mystery and sleuthing are riveting,and full of fantastic little details- the name on the window, the nun with high heeled shoes, the fight amidst a magician's paraphenalia The final shootout is excellently staged and still quite exciting. The laughs are constant, with some helarious lines, but they never detract from the suspense. Of course there's those shoddy model shots, but hell, this is a film from 1939!
Hitchcock had countless classics to come, including such complex masterpieces as Vertigo and Rear Window, but the delightful, hugely enjoyable The Lady Vanishes is a little masterpiece of it's own.