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The lady vanishes, GB Pictures presents ; a Gainsborough Picture ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder

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The lady vanishes

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GB Pictures presents ; a Gainsborough Picture ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screenplay, Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder

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Criterion collection, 3The Classic collection

A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure

Opening titles -- The hotel -- The guests -- Sleeping arrangements -- Iris and company -- "What's happening to England?" -- Dining with Miss Froy -- Goodnights and McGuffins -- Gilbert's music -- Gilbert and Iris meet -- Music and murder -- A slightly sunburnt offering -- Iris and Miss Froy -- "Froy--It rhymes with joy" -- "There has been no English lady here" -- "Never desert a lady in trouble" -- A more complicated case -- There is no Miss Froy -- A most fascinating complication -- "It isn't her!" -- "You're always seeing things" -- A million Mexicans drink it -- The vanishing lady -- "Kick him--See if he's got a false bottom!" -- Something wrong about the nun -- "To you health" -- "The operation will not be successful" -- "You haven't been drugged" -- The tables turned -- Diverted -- "Things like this just don't happen" -- "We'll never get to the match now" -- A message to the foreign office -- "We must get this train going" -- Home, and unfinished business -- End credits -- Color bars

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Alfred Hitchcock's The lady vanishes