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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.
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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.
Iris Henderson (played by Margaret Lockwood) is a young British woman traveling on a train in Europe. When the train is delayed by an avalanche, the passengers spend the night in a local château, and Henderson makes friends with an elderly governess named Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty). During the evening, Miss Froy is serenaded by a folksinger, who mysteriously dies shortly thereafter. There is also an apparent attempt on her life when a falling flowerpot nearly strikes her but hits Henderson instead. After being helped into her train compartment, Henderson passes out. When she regains consciousness, Miss Froy has disappeared, and the other riders deny any knowledge of her existence. Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave), a music teacher, offers to help Henderson, and they discover that Miss Froy has been held captive as part of an elaborate espionage conspiracy. After being rescued, Miss Froy confesses that she is actually a British spy and has been assigned to transport a vital secret message that is hidden in a musical tune she has memorized. Miss Froy departs the train amid gunfire, leaving Redman to memorize the tune and hum it for British intelligence agents when he arrives in London. When meeting the officials, however, Redman discovers that he has forgotten the melody. He then hears it being played on a nearby piano and discovers that it is Miss Froy, who has made her way back to London to deliver the coded message herself.
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•Studio: Gainsborough Pictures
•Director: Alfred Hitchcock
•Producer: Edward Black (uncredited)
•Writers: Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
•Music: Louis Levy and Charles Williams (both uncredited)
•Running time: 96 minutes
•Margaret Lockwood (Iris Henderson)
•Michael Redgrave (Gilbert Redman)
•Paul Lukas (Dr. Hartz)
•Dame May Whitty (Miss Froy)
•Naunton Wayne (Caldicott)
•Basil Radford (Charters)
- Lee Pfeiffer
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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 ...
The Lady Vanishes. 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 ...
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The Lady Vanishes is probably Alfred Hitchcock's most popular film of the 1930s. Scripted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from a novel, The Wheel Spins (1936), by the best-selling novelist Ethel Lina White, the film was shot in five weeks during the late autumn of 1938.
