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27 October 1988 (Netherlands)
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Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor. full summary | add synopsis
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A European Hitchcock
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | ... | Raymond Lemorne | |
| Gene Bervoets | ... | Rex Hofman | |
| Johanna ter Steege | ... | Saskia Wagter | |
| Gwen Eckhaus | ... | Lieneke | |
| Bernadette Le Saché | ... | Simone Lemorne | |
| Tania Latarjet | ... | Denise Lemorne | |
| Lucille Glenn | ... | Gabrielle 'Gaby' Lemorne | |
| Roger Souza | ... | Manager | |
| Caroline Appéré | ... | Cashier | |
| Pierre Forget | ... | Farmer Laurent | |
| Didier Rousset | ... | TV Journalist | |
| Raphaeline | ... | Gisele Marzin (as Raphaëline) | |
| Robert Lucibello | ... | Teacher | |
| David Bayle | ... | Lemorne (16 Years) | |
| Doumee | ... | Lady 'Prisunic' (as Doumée) |
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107 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Finland:K-11 (2005) |
Iceland:16 |
France:-12 |
Netherlands:16 |
UK:12 |
USA:Unrated |
West Germany:16 |
Singapore:PG |
Australia:M
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The central plot of the film (and the novel on which it is based) is from an archetype Urban Legend related to the Paris Exposition of 1901. A woman and her daughter travel to Paris for the exhibition, and whilst the woman unpacks, the daughter goes to a nearby shop. When she returns to the hotel, the mother is gone, and no one in the hotel remembers having seen her. The idea also formed for the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Terrence Fisher's So Long at the Fair (1950), Robert Fuest's And Soon the Darkness (1970) and Philip Leacock's Dying Room Only (1973) (TV).
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Continuity: When the Lemorne women are running towards the canal to help Raymond and the little girl, Simone is seen wearing a pink blouse with a green jacket. The next scene shows her wearing a black spaghetti-strapped shirt. When the family is seen leaving, Simone is wearing her original outfit.
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Version of The Vanishing (1993)
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"The Vanishing" is one of my favorite movies, probably in my top ten. I first saw it in 1990 in San Francisco. Without giving anything away, the end of this Dutch/French film contains an extraordinarily diabolical twist, and at the theater at which I saw it, the projector crapped out with about 15 minutes left. Everyone was issued a free pass to come back, which I did the next day, having barely been able to get the creepy story out of my head. I couldn't wait to see what happened at the film's conclusion. Fifteen years later, it still makes me shudder sometimes. The American remake with Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland should, in my opinion, be avoided at all cost; the ending was changed, no doubt to suit the bottom-line aspirations of some brain-dead producer. But the European original is full of great acting (particularly from the villain, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), a tight storyline, and, of course, a wickedly brilliant ending. It's a film worthy of Hitchcock.