The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes follows Iris, a young English tourist traveling through Europe by train, who awakens to discover that her elderly companion has inexplicably disappeared.
After other passengers deny the lady’s existence, Iris works with another traveler to solve the mystery.
The Lady Vanishes is early British Hitchcock at his finest, renowned as a sophisticated comedy-thriller that stands as one of the director’s wittiest films.
It arrived amid the popularity of train movies in the 1930s, though Hitchcock’s entertaining direction, the chemistry between the leads, and the clever construction of the mystery make it a sampler of its genre and one of the best earlier movies from Hitchcock.
The Lady Vanishes is available to stream on Max.
The Lady Vanishes Score Breakdown
IMDB Score: 7.8/10
Metacritic Score: 98/100
Our Grade: A-
