The Lady Vanishes [Criterion Collection]
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Louis Levy , Margaret Lockwood , Michael Redgrave , Paul Lukas , May Whitty , Cecil Parker
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(Criterion Collection Edition)
$39.99
- Release Date: 11/20/2007
- UPC: 0715515026727
- Original Release: 1938
- Source: CRITERION COLLECTION
- Region Code: 1
- Presentation: [B&W]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 5760
- Sales rank: 5,106
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Balanced
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Radford and Wayne
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"Escape From Venice"
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Natural Tension
Extraordinary Situations
Racy/Subversive
Illusion of Safety
Treaties/Great Shots
"Truth Bomb"
Conjuring Tricks
Sound/Parody
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Lukas/Glasses
Launder and Gilliat
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British Society
Pop Culture Fixtures
Origins
Politics/Selznick
Loose Ends
Minor Disagreement
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Disc #2 -- Lady Vanishes: The Supplements
Crook's Tour
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About Charters and Caldicott
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About the Interview
Mystery Train
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The film that brought Alfred Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood, The Lady Vanishes stars May Whitty as Miss Froy, whose disappearance from her passenger train inspires young traveler Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) to enlist the aid of fellow passenger Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) to solve the mystery.
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It's easy to forget, with all his successes, that Alfred Hitchcock's career suffered quite a few periods of commercial decline. Following his two international breakthroughs, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and The 39 Steps (1935), the director produced three films with relatively disappointing box-office returns. In 1938, he broke out of this slump with the popular and entertaining The Lady Vanishes. The director's penultimate movie before leaving England, it's a very light picture, more dependent on comedy than almost any of his previous films. A good deal of the humor comes from the interplay between the definitively British tourists Charters and Caldicott, played indelibly by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, that the actors would reprise in several other films. Despite (or perhaps because of) its "Englishness," The Lady Vanishes made quite a splash in America, securing Hitchcock a place in Hollywood. The charming script by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat was based on the popular Ethel Lina White novel, The Wheel Spins. Brendon Hanley