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  1. Sep 28, 2024 · The ingenious classic thriller behind Hitchcock's famous film, set on a steam train travelling across 1930s Europe and boasting “intrigue, mystery, and spine-chilling horror” (Saturday Review)First published as The Wheel Spins in 1936 and adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White’s The Lady Vanishes established the author as one of the greatest crime writers of ...

  2. Oct 3, 2024 · 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, now in an all-new digital transfer ...

  3. Sep 29, 2024 · The Lady Vanishes Poster for the film The Lady Vanishes. (more) The Lady Vanishes (1938) is a deft thriller that finds a traveler ( Margaret Lockwood ) riding a train across Europe ; she wonders at the sudden—and apparently unnoticed—disappearance of another fellow traveller (Dame May Whitty), but no one else on the train seems to remember her.

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  4. by Peter James. Book one. Four friends agree to pull a prank on their soon-to-be-married mate, Michael Harrison. But what begins as a harmless joke turns into a nightmare when the friends die in a car crash, leaving Michael buried alive in a coffin with no way out. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is tasked with solving the mystery, but with ...

  5. Oct 3, 2024 · Also starring Michael Redgrave, The Lady Vanishes remains one of the great filmmaker’s purest delights. Picture 7/10 Criterion upgrades their 2007 DVD edition of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes for Blu-ray, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on a dual-layer disc with a 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer.

  6. Sep 21, 2024 · Hitchcock was first recognised as a gifted filmmaker in the 1920s but the films he made between 1934 and 1938, the six 'chase thrillers', established his reputation and associated him with a particular type of film, one marked by a varying mix of suspense, comedy and romance. This course explores the two most celebrated of these, looking at their production, structure and critical reception ...

  7. 4 days ago · Double agent drama and spies investigating spies are at the heart of the film's mysterious story. Argo is another good spy movie based on a book. CIA secrets worth killing for are found in The Bourne Identity. Other good spy movies based on books include The Third Man, The Lady Vanishes, The Constant Gardener, and of course, Bond films.