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The Lady Vanishes

Alfred Hitchcock

United Kingdom

1938

96 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

English

3

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

Iris HendersonMargaret Lockwood
GilbertMichael Redgrave
Dr. HartzPaul Lukas
Miss FroyDame May Whitty
Mr. TodhunterCecil Parker

Credits

DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
ScreenplaySidney Gilliat, Frank Launder and Ethel Lina White
ProducerEdward Black
CinematographyJack E. Cox
EditingR.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

From the Current

The Lady Vanishes Revisited

by Robin Wood Dec 29, 2008

If I had not seen The Lady Vanishes at the age of seven, I might never have become a film critic.I was the fifth child of parents well into middle age: clearly an “accident,” as I was ten-years-plus younger than the other four. My siblings were decent enough to me, but they . . .

The Lady Vanishes: All Aboard!

by Geoffrey O’Brien Nov 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 and Eric Rohmer, in their pioneering study of Hitchcock, for once abandoned the search for hidden meanings and—while rating . . .

The Lady Vanishes: Tea and Treachery

by Charles Barr Nov 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 insular mind-set. The passports may say British, but these are specifically English people, with not a hint of Welsh or Scottish or . . .

The Lady Vanishes

by Michael Wilmington Mar 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 other . . .

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