Review of The Lady Vanishes (1938) by Richard D — 28 Feb 2018
Margaret Lockwood is travelling by train in Eastern Europe and befriends May Whitty, a retired English governess. She goes to sleep for a while, and when she wakes, Whitty is gone and nobody on the train agrees that she even existed.
She teams up with Michael Redgrave to try to figure out what has happened. This is top notch Hitchcock. The plot is fairly absurd (a pretty amazing series of coincidences have to have gone off in perfect precision for the bad guys's plan to even have a chance of working), but he deftly mixes comedy and suspense in a way that nobody could really be bothered by the absurdity of it all.
This review of The Lady Vanishes (1938) was written by Richard D on 28 Feb 2018.
The Lady Vanishes has generally received very positive reviews.
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