Synopsis
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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Cast
- Margaret LockwoodIris Matilda Henderson
- Michael RedgraveGilbert Redman
- Paul LukasDr. Hartz
- May WhittyMiss Froy
- Basil RadfordCharters
- Naunton WayneCaldicott
- Cecil ParkerEric Todhunter
- Linden Travers'Mrs.' Margaret Todhunter
- Mary ClareBaroness Isabel Nisatona
- Emile BoreoBoris the Hotel Manager
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
This is vintage Hitchcock, with the pacing and superb editing that marked not only his 30s style but eventually every film that had any aspirations whatever to achieving suspense and rhythm. - 100
The Guardian
A pleasure. - 100
The New York Times
If it were not so brilliant a melodrama, we should class it as a brilliant comedy. - 100
Time
The Lady Vanishes exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock, England's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form. - 100
Time Out
Funny, creepy (in a way already peculiar to Hitchcock) and always entertaining, both in the moment and in the realisation that you’re enjoying a particularly witty and playful script. - 100
The A.V. Club
It's typical Hitchcock: taut, morbid, stylish, and determined to confound expectations all the way up to the final shot. - 100
The Observer (UK)
It's the greatest-ever comedy-thriller, the greatest film set on a train, a faultlessly cast mirror held up to the nation in the year of Munich. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
This is one of Hitchcock's finest British films, a classic mystery that manages to combine humor with a genuine sense of menace--not to mention the kinds of characters that everyone dreams of meeting on a Central European train journey.
