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  The Lady Vanishes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and its 1979 remake.
The 1938 original was adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White.
The film was originally titled The Lost Lady and was to be directed by Roy William Neill.
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 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Like Strangers on a Train, The Lady Vanishes is a most enjoyable, rollicking, light thriller full of humour and suspense.
The Lady Vanishes is not one of Hitchcock's deeper films but has the advantage of the two central characters, Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood, giving superb, elevating performances.
The Lady Vanishes, is a precursor of films like To Catch a Thief and North by North West, that are replete with tension, suspense and humour.
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 The Jujube Spotlight - The Lady Vanishes
Looking back, what I admire most about "The Lady Vanishes" is the richness of it, how it manages to be so many engaging things all at once while still feeling completely seamless.
The missing person of the title is Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty), a kindly English spinster who, at the beginning of the film, is stranded for the night at an alpine hotel along with a large crowd of French, Italian, German, and British travelers.
From the personal romance to the cloak-and-dagger conspiracy, "The Lady Vanishes" is about people with a common bond looking out for each other.
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 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
If the lady of the title, played by the great Dame May Whitty, had merely sent a telegram or made a phone call, we would be without a classic Hitchcockian chase across Eastern Europe.
Almost all of the passengers deny ever having seen the old lad and contend that she was an illusion brought on by Iris's accident with the falling flowerpot, a sincere young musician, Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) comes to her assistance.
It was while preparing The Lady Vanishes that Hitchcock received the bid from Hollywood that was to make him the world's most famous director.
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 The Lady Vanishes (1938)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From 1938, The Lady Vanishes is clearly where Hitch was getting comfortable in his trade.
When she asks about the lady, people say that there was no old lady.
The mystery then ensues as our leading lady tries to uncover the plot behind a woman she knows was there.
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 The Lady Vanishes:The Lady Vanishes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At first glance The Lady Vanishes appears to be a frothy, lightweight treat, a testament to Alfred Hitchcock's nimble touch.
Froy (Dame May Whitty) vanishes from her train car without a trace and the once quarrelsome couple unite to search the train and uncover a dastardly plot.
The lady in question is Miss Froy (Dame May Witty), a splendid eccentric innocent old governess (in reality a British secret agent), who is kidnapped by the smooth Dr. Hartz (Paul Lukas), really the master enemy spy...
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 The Lady Vanishes (1938) Filmjudge DVD Review
Hitchcock managed in The Lady Vanishes, to explore the role of Britain as he views it in the world, and the social roles brought about by status of British individuals in society in relation to that larger view.
Similarly, the heroine of The Lady Vanishes is hit on the head and falls in and out of consciousness, placing doubt on her perception.
This occurs in "The Lady Vanishes" when the "patient" is brought aboard.
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 Film Reviews - The Lady Vanishes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The film that brought him to the attention of Hollywood, The Lady Vanishes is a piece of classic Alfred Hitchcock.
Unable to locate her and faced with the flat denials of everyone as to Miss Froy's very existence, Iris fears for her sanity as she attempts to convince everyone that her aged friend may be in mortal danger.
Vintage Hitchcock at his best, The Lady Vanishes is an exciting, amusing, charming and utterly compelling movie and one that can be viewed over and over again, without the slightest lessening of enjoyment.
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 TMe: The Lady Vanishes Film Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Lady Vanishes is an intriguing tale of romance and murder.
While it’s easy for people to vanish into thin air, it’s a rather difficult task when one is in constant motion.
The Lady Vanishes has a classic Hitchcock set-up (a protagonist that the audience knows is telling the truth but whom no one will believe), masterful use of point-of-view shots, and a deftly blend of suspense and comedy.
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 DVD Talk Review: The Lady Vanishes (1979) (Region 2)
The Lady Vanishes seems to have grown out of the unexpected success of Murder on the Orient Express (1974), director Sidney Lumet's light-hearted, all-star mystery from Agatha Christie's story.
The Lady Vanishes was filmed in Panavision, and presented here in letterboxed format, anamorphically enhanced for 16:9 televisions.
It may not be a classic in its own right, but The Lady Vanishes is entertaining enough and certainly undeserving of its dismissed status.
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 The Criterion Collection: Lady Vanishes, The
Watching The Lady Vanishes, we’re as beguiled by the sparkling repartee of the lovers Iris and Gilbert and the daft by-play of cricket buffs Caldicott and Charters as we are riveted by the shocks and stunning plot turns.
The central premise itself is wonderfully adroit: the unaccountably missing governess, Miss Froy, vanishes on a train where everyone denies she ever existed.
The Lady Vanishes script, written in 1936, is a clear attack on Britain’s isolationist foreign policy under Chamberlain in the face of threats to Europe.
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 The Lady Vanishes - Britmovie - British Film Forums
Jonathan Mostow on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938).
For anyone unfamiliar with Breakdown, it's worth pointing out two things: that it is one of the most relentlessly gripping thrillers to have come out of America in the past 10 years; and that "the lady vanishes" is in fact a perfect synopsis of its plot.
But, given the fruits that The Lady Vanishes has evidently borne, we can only be thankful that, all those years ago, Mostow was taken to such an ordinary film.
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 THE LADY VANISHES
Froy (the lady who disappears) was done in, but I still believed it anyway.
THE LADY VANISHES starts out kind of slowly, opening in a small European hotel filled with travelers stranded until the next train arrives the following morning.
THE LADY VANISHES may take place on a train, but it manages to be thoroughly exciting and dangerous.
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 Heroine Worship: Amelia Earhart, The Lady Vanishes
The tall, shy, boyish Earhart was dubbed "Lady Lindy" after a 1928 flight that made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, although she was little more than a passenger.
By vanishing into thin air, Amelia Earhart seemed to merge with the elements of nature, which she had so often challenged and conquered.
She became the archetype of the androgynous winged seraph who escapes the bondage of reproduction and biology.
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 Organic/Mechanic Permalink » The Lady Vanishes
I’d not heard of this Hitchcock film, which he made while he was still based in Britain, basically to finish out a contract with a film company as far as I can tell.
The on-train conspiracy strains credulity in its apparent completeness and the lengths the villains go to in order to dispose of the vanished lady are also a bit out there.
In many respects his later work in The Lady Vanishes is related to this film.
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 The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes was one of the last films Hitchcock made before he left for Hollywood, and it's one of his funniest and most light-hearted efforts.
And then there is Dame May Whitty, the lady referred to in the title.
Iris is the only one who is concerned, but when she tries to bring it to people's attention they all deny the existence of the old lady.
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 The Lady Vanishes News
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Tapes entails lengthy discussions of 1937's Young and Innocent and 1938's The Lady Vanishes, both of which dwell largely on matters of technique.
THE LADY VANISHES Radio 2, 9.15pm Written by Ethel Lina White and published in 1936 as The Wheel Spins, this taut little thriller provided Alfred Hitchcock with one of his most famous films.
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 The Lady Vanishes: Criterion (1938)
During her stay over night, she runs into a rather annoying musician named Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) and it's pretty obvious these two are going to become romantically involved.
She also meets a Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty), a nice older lady who she takes a liking to almost immediately.
A closed in area moving at high speeds and someone suddenly vanishing without a trace, all passengers denying she was even aboard.
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 DVD Authority | DVD Review of "The Lady Vanishes: Criterion Collection"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Lady Vanishes also includes a unique romantic undercurrent, which adds even more depth to the picture.
All the typical Hitchcock elements seem present here and The Lady Vanishes stands as a terrific moment in his career as a director.
The Lady Vanishes is presented in full frame form, which preserves the film's proper aspect ratio.
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 Lady Vanishes - Moviefone
The Lady Vanishes (1938) Filmed on an extremely low budget, "The Lady Vanishes" surprisingly boasts some amazing special effects in some areas, at least for the decade the movie was...
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 ePluribus Media Community || The lady vanishes...again.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After she died, her absence was tangible because of the emptiness in the house, as well as in our lives.
Although the ashes of our missing friend and family member were small consolation for the loss of her great fuzzy hearted presence, we nonetheless found comfort in the modified presence to which she'd been restored to our lives.
We didn't, therefore, think it was amusing when the bag containing her ashes vanished from the box which held them.
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 EUFS: The Lady Vanishes
The next day the lady, Miss Froy, is nowhere to be found but none of the other passengers seem in the least concerned and even doubt that she ever existed.
Almost the last film Hitchcock made in Britain, The Lady Vanishes has all the ingenuity and unparalleled mastery of suspense that make his Hollywood output so acclaimed and popular.
In order to make your own mind up, take a look at The Lady Vanishes; still managing to remain comically fresh, while Hitch lays out a plot as delightfully thick as could be wished for.
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 Lady Vanishes, The - 1980 : Arts : Movies : Titles : L : Lady Vanishes, The - 1980   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lady Vanishes, The - 1980 : Arts : Movies : Titles : L : Lady Vanishes, The - 1980
The Lady Vanishes - UK (1979), directed by Anthony Page, from the play by Sidney Gilliat.
IMDb: The Lady Vanishes - 1980: Synopsis, cast and crew, awards and user comments.
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 Amazon.com: The Lady Vanishes: DVD: Emile Boreo,Mary Clare,Selma Vaz Dias,Catherine Lacey,Philip Leaver,Margaret ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is the central scene on the train in THE LADY VANISHES.
Bottom line: THE LADY VANISHES is one of the best movies you will ever see, but please, it works at a slower pace than today's movies, so let it sink in for you, don't be in a hurry, EXPERIENCE it!
It begins with the bucolic simplicity of the inn and then the film's focus gradually shifts to the sinister realization that Iris is surrounded by people she can't trust.
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 The Lady Vanishes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
However, further enquiries made among the passengers reveal the curious behaviour of a group of foreign government agents who are also travelling as passengers.
The production was ready to roll as Lost Lady, directed by Roy William Neill, with Charters and Caldicott already in place, when Neill became unavailable and Hitchcock stepped in.
You may vote for this film as your favourite at Margaret Lockwood's poll.
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - The Lady Vanishes
A group of English travelers on a train across Europe includes a sweet old woman (Whitty).
Lockwood and Redgrave get pulled into a web of intrigue when, after Lockwood gets beaned on the head, the lady disappears, leaving only her name written in frost on the window.
When they set out to find her, Lockwood's memory and sanity are questioned, particularly by a scheming Lukas.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: The Lady Vanishes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Criterion has already released a feature-packed edition of this 1937 Hitchcock classic (one of the last films he made in Britain before relocating to Hollywood), but if you'd like to save a few bucks and just have the film itself in your collection, LaserLight's edition is an attractive alternative.
A rare whodunit in the Hitchcock oeuvre (Hitch always said it was better to let everybody know who the bad guys are right away), Margaret Lockwood stars in The Lady Vanishes as Iris Henderson, a young woman traveling by train from central Europe to England, where she plans to marry.
LaserLight's The Lady Vanishes offers a pleasant source print that is showing some damage but also has good low-contrast detail.
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