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The Lady Vanishes (1938) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When Iris is about to hit the still semi-conscious Signor Doppo, for the second time, he cringes before she hits him.
  
  
• Continuity: Just after the train starts out, we see it on a high bridge; behind the locomotive and tender are a van, four passenger cars, and another van. Just after the lady vanishes, an exterior view along the side of the train shows at least five passenger cars, and we were told that there have been no stops.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In Europe, the hotel manager says it is "spring" when talking about the avalanches. However, the two English travelers are trying to get back to the Manchester cricket test in England. Cricket is played in the summer and all Manchester tests in the 1930s were played in July.
  
  

• Continuity: The writing on the train window.
  
  
• Continuity: During the club car scene where Dr. Hartz tries to get Gilbert and Iris to drink drugged brandies, the amount of brandy in the snifters varies from shot to shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The way Charters leans over Caldicott in bed when the maid enters changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The way Iris leans on her pillow when Gilbert enters her room changes between shots.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr Hartz holds Iris and Gilbert at gunpoint he seemingly sits on a seat in the middle of the compartment. When Iris and Gilbert get up after Dr Hartz leaves they walk to the door between the compartments and right through where the seat should have been.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the noisy dancing scene above Lockwood's hotel room, the clarinet is shown with the mouthpiece turned with the reed upwards. Normally the mouthpiece is turned so that the reed is downwards, but in some European folk traditions the clarinet was played with the mouthpiece "upside down".
  
  

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