THE LADY VANISHES (1938) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Alfred Hitchcock

Written by - Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder (based on a story by Ethel Lina White)

Starring - Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Paul Lukas

"A young girl must return to London after a ski vacation. At the train station, she is knocked out, and helped by a middle aged woman who advises her to sleep. When the girl awakens, the lady has vanished. With the help of a seemingly rude music scholar, she starts looking for her on the train, a desperate search which unravels mysteries upon mysteries. Splendid in its creative force and suspenseful nature. Hitchcock, with one of his last British film before his Hollywood expatriation, delivers one of his most complete films to date and in his entire filmography, balancing tongue in cheek humour whilst taking full advantage of the claustrophobic setting to build great tension. With this and many other techniques he exhibited elements that defined his style of filmmaking."

Thriller, UK