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The Lady Vanishes

  • 19381938
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
54K
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Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
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MysteryThriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
54K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
4,948
2,600
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Ethel Lina White(based upon the story by: "The Wheel Spins")
    • Sidney Gilliat(screen play)
    • Frank Launder(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Margaret Lockwood
    • Michael Redgrave
    • Paul Lukas
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Ethel Lina White(based upon the story by: "The Wheel Spins")
    • Sidney Gilliat(screen play)
    • Frank Launder(screen play)
  • Stars
    • Margaret Lockwood
    • Michael Redgrave
    • Paul Lukas
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 262User reviews
    • 111Critic reviews
    • 98Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    Videos1

    The Lady Vanishes: The Criterion Collection [Blu-Ray]
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    Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Basil Radford, Linden Travers, and Naunton Wayne in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Catherine Lacey, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Margaret Lockwood, Cecil Parker, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Margaret Lockwood, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave, Linden Travers, and Naunton Wayne in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Mary Clare, Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Alfred Hitchcock, Catherine Lacey, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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    Margaret Lockwood
    Margaret Lockwood
    • Iris Matilda Henderson
    Michael Redgrave
    Michael Redgrave
    • Gilbert Redman
    Paul Lukas
    Paul Lukas
    • Dr. Egon Hartz
    May Whitty
    May Whitty
    • Miss Froy
    • (as Dame May Whitty)
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    • Mr. Todhunter
    Linden Travers
    Linden Travers
    • 'Mrs.' Todhunter
    Naunton Wayne
    Naunton Wayne
    • Caldicott
    Basil Radford
    Basil Radford
    • Charters
    Mary Clare
    Mary Clare
    • Baroness Athona
    Emile Boreo
    • Hotel Manager
    Googie Withers
    Googie Withers
    • Blanche
    Sally Stewart
    • Julie
    Philip Leaver
    Philip Leaver
    • Signor Doppo
    Selma Vaz Dias
    • Signora Doppo
    • (as Zelma Vas Dias)
    Catherine Lacey
    Catherine Lacey
    • The Nun
    • (as Catherine Lacy)
    Josephine Wilson
    • Madame Kummer
    Charles Oliver
    Charles Oliver
    • The Officer
    Kathleen Tremaine
    • Anna
      • Alfred Hitchcock
      • Ethel Lina White(based upon the story by: "The Wheel Spins")
      • Sidney Gilliat(screen play)
      • Frank Launder(screen play)
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    • Trivia
      In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Alfred Hitchcock revealed that this movie was inspired by a legend of an Englishwoman who went with her daughter to the Palace Hotel in Paris in the 1880s, at the time of the Great Exposition: "The woman was taken sick and they sent the girl across Paris to get some medicine in a horse-vehicle, so it took about four hours. When she came back she asked, 'How's my mother?' 'What mother?' 'My mother. She's here, she's in her room. Room 22.' They go up there. Different room, different wallpaper, everything. And the payoff of the whole story is, so the legend goes, that the woman had bubonic plague and they dared not let anybody know she died, otherwise all of Paris would have emptied." The urban legend, known as the Vanishing Hotel Room, also formed the basis of one segment of the German portmanteau film Eerie Tales (1919), So Long at the Fair (1950) (in which the missing person was the young woman's brother as opposed to her mother) and Into Thin Air (1955), starring Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock.
    • Goofs
      In the noisy dancing scene above Lockwood's hotel room, the clarinet is shown with the mouthpiece turned with the reed upwards. Normally the mouthpiece is turned so that the reed is downwards, but in some European folk traditions the clarinet was played with the mouthpiece "upside-down".
    • Quotes

      Gilbert: Can I help?

      Iris Henderson: Only by going away.

      Gilbert: No, no, no, no. My father always taught me, never desert a lady in trouble. He even carried that as far as marrying Mother.

    • Crazy credits
      Closing credits: The Characters in "THE LADY VANISHES" were played by:
    • Alternate versions
      A brief segment where a hotel maid bends down to pick up a hat from under a hotel bed is missing from most US releases, including Criterion's first official DVD and all bootlegs. It's intact in all official non-US releases and has been restored for Criterion's 2-disc remastered DVD.
    • Connections
      Edited from Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)
    • Soundtracks
      Colonel Bogey March
      (1914) (uncredited)

      Music by Kenneth Alford

      Hummed by Michael Redgrave

    User reviews262

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    8/10
    Classic Hitchcock!
    Dame Mae Witty gives a memorable performance as the old woman who goes missing. The rest of the cast is great with Margaret Lockwood as the woman she befriends on the train. Sir Michael Redgrave also is wonderful as the obvious love interest of Lockwood. The film is truly filled with Hitchcock's stamp all over it. He takes a simple story and makes us not only intriguing but entertaining as well. They remade the film again in 1978 more than 40 years after this film debuted in British cinema. This classic film should not be mixed up with that one. I enjoyed this film. It had its humorous moments. I think this film is really wonderful to watch without being too much. Nowadays filmmakers can take note by Hitchcock's genius and talent. You do not need grand special effects today to create a memorable film but great actors and decent writing. This film is a great film about a good old fashioned mystery without deterring the audience. This film is good old fashioned movie making at its best.
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    • Sylviastel
    • Dec 16, 2005

    FAQ17

    • Is this film in the public domain?
    • Every copy I've seen has been terrible. Which is the best version to buy?
    • Who erases the name "Froy" written in the train's window fog after the train goes in a tunnel?

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    • Release date
      • November 1, 1938 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
      • German
      • French
      • Italian
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    • Filming locations
      • Longmoor Military Railway, Longmoor Military Camp, Hampshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Gainsborough Pictures
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    • 1 hour 36 minutes
      • Black and White

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