Maybe the best of Hitchcock's early, pre-USA productions.
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02/22/08
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
96 %
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Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 27
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, weaves a knotty yarn of intrigue in this early outing. Young, beautiful, and spoiled Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is wrapping up a ski vacation before unenthusiastically returning to... [More]
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Reviews for The Lady Vanishes
Both a neat comment on Britain's dilemma in the build-up to the impending war with Germany (to appease or not to appease?) and also a cracking piece of entertainment.
01/11/08
Naturally, nobody builds suspense like ‘The Master’, but the appealing team of Lockwood and Redgrave receves sterling back-up from twinkly Dame May and Cecil Parker as the spineless adulterer.
01/11/08
Hitchcock's second-to-last British movie before decamping to LA is a fun romp celebrating the stiff-upper-lippedness of our great nation.
01/11/08
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.
01/19/07
Top Critic [R]epresents Hitchcock's work at its most charming.... [T]he suspense is tonic rather than truly frightening, and almost comically glamorous.
11/09/05
An early triumph for Hitchcock, rife with tension and a supremely English sense of humor.
01/13/05
Just in under the wire to challenge for a place on the year's best ten is The Lady Vanishes, latest of the melodramatic classics made by England's greatest director, Alfred Hitchcock.
05/20/03
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