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The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. [1] [2] Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, [1] the film is about an English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to ...
Further Information. The following resources provide further information: Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations (2009) by Gary Giblin. Category: Film locations. The Lady Vanishes (1938) - filming locations.
The film script is adapted from Ethel Lina White’s story The Wheel Spins by Sidney Gilliat and and Frank Launder,who worked together again in Carol Reed’s 1940 thriller Night Train to Munich(which also starring Margaret Lockwood,Basil Radford Naunton Wayneand and is available in Criterion Collection).Their contribution to the film is enormous,considering the fact that this is the only ...
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Travellers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears. (© IMDB)
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Directed by: 1. Alfred Hitchcock Starring: 1. Margaret Lockwood — Iris Matilda Henderson 2. Michael Redgrave — Gilbert Redman 3. Paul Lukas — Doctor Hartz of Prague 4. Dame May Whitty — Miss Froy, Governess 5. Cecil Parker — Eric Todhunter 6. Linden Travers — "Mrs" Margaret Todhunter 7. Naunton Wayne — Caldicott 8. Basil Radford — Charters 9. Mary ...
Dec 4, 2007 · When the film begins, an avalanche has forced a trans-European express to stop in the village overnight. The train's English passengers—a brilliant ensemble cast of British character actors like ...
Discussion. The Lady Vanishes, arguably Alfred Hitchcock's finest English film, is an excellent mixture of suspense and humor. Particularly amusing are the fanatical English cricket fans, Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) and Charters (Basil Radford), who are obsessed with the test matches. Wayne and Radford made such a popular comic duo that they were ...
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The Lady Vanishes, British thriller film, released in 1938, that was one of director Alfred Hitchcock ’s early classics, noted for the taut suspense and dry humour that would largely define his movies. (From left) Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, and Paul Lukas in The Lady Vanishes (1938). Iris Henderson (played by Margaret Lockwood) is a ...
