06 April 2015

The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)

6.5/10
A pretty good movie, maybe a bit of a disappointment as far as movies with Hitchcock's name on them go. I liked the initial staging in the snowed-in made-up town where you meet most of the characters. The premise starts out with a lot of promise: a lady disappears on a train and a young woman is the only one who seems to know of her existence. I like the initial mystery where it's not clear why other passengers (who have clearly seen the lady in question) are now denying her existence. As the plot unfolded it got more and more lame, culminating in a weirdly out-of-place shootout between train passengers and coppers and leading to a very abrupt, kind of corny ending.

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