The Lady Vanishes: All Aboard!
By November 19, 2007
The Lady Vanishes is the film that best exemplifies Hitchcock’s often-asserted desire to offer audiences not a slice of life but a slice of cake. Even Claude Chabrol Read more »
- United Kingdom
- 1938
- 96 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- English
SYNOPSIS: In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets Dame May Whitty’s charming old spinster, who seemingly disappears into thin air. The young woman then turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. The Lady Vanishes remains one of the master filmmaker’s purest delights.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Iris Henderson | Margaret Lockwood |
| Gilbert | Michael Redgrave |
| Dr. Hartz | Paul Lukas |
| Miss Froy | Dame May Whitty |
| Mr. Todhunter | Cecil Parker |
Credits
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Screenplay | Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder and Ethel Lina White |
| Producer | Edward Black |
| Cinematography | Jack E. Cox |
| Editing | R.E. Dearing |
Disc Features
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET INCLUDES:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
- Crook’s Tour, a 1941 feature-length Charters and Caldicott adventure, available for the first time on home video, starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprising their beloved The Lady Vanishes roles
- Excerpts from François Truffaut’s legendary 1962 audio interview with Alfred Hitchcock
- Mystery Train, a new video essay about Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff
- Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art
- PLUS: New essays by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr
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Film Essays
The Lady Vanishes: Tea and Treachery
By November 19, 2007
“They can’t possibly do anything to us. We’re British subjects.” One of the delights of The Lady Vanishes is the wit with which it pins down this form of Read more »
The Lady Vanishes
By March 26, 1998
In The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock pushes the romantic comedy-thriller form to perfection. Endlessly imitated, the film remains unique, even in Hitchcock’s canon. In no Read more »
