SYNOPSIS: In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty), who then seems to disappear into thin air. The younger woman turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. Also starring Michael Redgrave, The Lady Vanishes remains one of the great filmmaker’s purest delights.
| Iris Henderson | Margaret Lockwood |
| Gilbert | Michael Redgrave |
| Dr. Hartz | Paul Lukas |
| Miss Froy | Dame May Whitty |
| Mr. Todhunter | Cecil Parker |
| “Mrs.” Todhunter | Linden Travers |
| Caldicott | Naunton Wayne |
| Charters | Basil Radford |
| Baroness | Mary Clare |
| Hotel manager | Emile Boreo |
| Blanche | Googie Withers |
| Julie | Sally Stewart |
| Signor Doppo | Philip Leaver |
| Signora Doppo | Zelma Vas Dias |
| Nun | Catherine Lacy |
| Madame Kummer | Josephine Wilson |
| Officer | Charles Oliver |
| Anna | Kathleen Tremaine |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Screenplay | Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder |
| Based upon the novel The Wheel Spins by | Ethel Lina White |
| Continuity | Alma Reville |
| Photography | Jack Cox |
| Editing | R. E. Dearing |
| Assistant director | Roy Ward Baker |
| Cutting | Alfred Roome |
| Recording | Sydney Wiles |
| Settings | Alex Vetchinsky |
| Scenic artist | Albert Whitlock |
| Musical director | Louis Levy |
By November 19, 2007
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By November 19, 2007
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June 18, 2010
Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque is honoring the irreplaceable film critic and scholar Robin Wood, who died last December, by running some of the films that were important to him. The Read more »
By December 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 Read more »
