The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Highly Recommended
UK
Feature Film

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, Ethel Lina White
Cinematographer: Jack Cox
Composer: Louis Levy
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford

Hitchcock’s wonderful trans-European, train-set comic thriller – a tale of spies, missing old ladies, Will Hay impressions, and cricket obsessed, tea taking Englishmen – is a ramblingly inconsequential (yet absolutely riveting) delight, mixing laughs and thrills with charm and romance. Iain.Stott