The Lady Vanishes

2013

Action / Mystery / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 2760 2.8K

Plot summary

Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.

Director

Diarmuid Lawrence Photo
Diarmuid Lawrence

Top cast

Selina Cadell Photo
Selina Cadell as Miss Froy
Keeley Hawes Photo
Keeley Hawes as Mrs Todhunter / Laura Parmiter
Pip Torrens Photo
Pip Torrens as Reverend Kenneth Barnes
Charles Aitken Photo
Charles Aitken as Charlie
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790.64 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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25 fps
1 hr 26 min
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1.59 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 26 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Bernie4444 7 / 10

A fair rendition.

There are several versions of the movie and then there is the book it is based on "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White.The most popular and the stick by which all others are measured is the Alfred Hitchcock version The Lady Vanishes (1938) (The Criterion Collection).This rendition has quite a few TV actors of the time playing the various characters. One you will recognize right off is Selina Cadell. She plays Miss Froy. She has (102 credits) to her name.This (2013) version was adjusted to be politically correct so you cannot "fast forward" as the clues and conclusion are different. The politics of the time are not mentioned but the flu is.One may be put off by the main character being a snot. However, that is necessary to show how she reforms in adversity.The basic story is of course a lady traveling on a train vanishes. When our heroine inquires as to her whereabouts everyone denies that the lady ever existed.
Reviewed by raphael1836 7 / 10

Has Nobody Read the Book?

Hitchcock's movie is wildly over-rated and people are far too snowed by the mumbling, bumbling cricket fans, Michael Redgrave's charm and Lockwood's beauty-in-distress.The new version may not be perfect but it is most definitely not a remake of the 1938 movies, it's an adaptation of the book and far closer to the novel The Wheel Spins. Does it wrap up too quickly? Well, so does the book, unfortunately.Hitchcock added way too much farce and a silly gun battle that veer so far from the nature of the novel as to be almost unbelievable.Despite the ending, I recommend The Wheel Spins unreservedly. Its a dark psychological study of a mind almost sinking into madness. The author does a wonderful job of writing about a socialite who is drawn into a mystery way beyond any trouble she's ever had to deal with, one that makes her for the first time in her life feel alone and helpless.
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