The Lady Vanishes

Alfred Hitchcock’s finest British film is a witty comedy thriller set aboard a train travelling through a Europe on the cusp of war.

  • Director

    Alfred Hitchcock

  • With

    Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

  • UK 1938. 96min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

On a train crossing Europe on the brink of the Second World War, Iris takes tea with the friendly English governess she met in her compartment. Minutes later, the governess has vanished and none of the train’s eccentric gallery of passengers will admit to having ever seen her. Propelled by a superb Launder and Gilliat script, Hitchcock’s finest British film is, by turns, hilarious, thrilling, romantic and scary.