More than any of the English-speaking film men, Hitchcock is a one-man show, getting every detail straight in his head and the way he wants it before the first camera starts rolling.

| Dec 26, 2023

Hitchcock effortlessly navigates this vivid thriller from light comedy to high tension and back again, creating one of his most enchanting and entertaining mysteries.

| Aug 19, 2023

Train whistles pepper the constant travel hum, rail montages, rear projection, and black and white photography – keeping the confined setting fittingly well paced with perilous comings and goings between cars.

| Jul 25, 2023

An enjoyable mystery...

Full Review | Oct 10, 2022

As full of surprises, horrors, thrills, even humor, as the other Hitchcock productions.

| Aug 11, 2022

Here is another world of violence, humor and menace, miraculously wrought out of base ingredients. Mr. Hitchcock should be hailed as the wizard who has discovered the secret of making silk purses out of sow’s ears.

| Aug 11, 2022

A powerful story of espionage and treachery.

| Apr 15, 2020

The true star is the director... who has made an excellent movie.

| Sep 10, 2019

A snappy, witty, dryly funny testament to British perseverance and tea time that cannot and should not be ignored when discussing the master's finest work.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock has directed The Lady Vanishes with all his individual expertness of touch and this is an out of the ordinary and exciting thriller.

| Feb 22, 2017

It's the greatest-ever comedy-thriller, the greatest film set on a train, a faultlessly cast mirror held up to the nation in the year of Munich.

| Aug 13, 2014

The Lady Vanishes exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock, England's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form.

| Aug 13, 2014

It remains the most complex and enlivening of Hitchcock's earliest films.

| Apr 19, 2014

Enormously entertaining mystery-comedy, that is also filled with feminist and political commentary.

| Aug 2, 2013

this director at this moment in his career, back when he was still more clever than cruel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2012

Hitchcock comedy thriller is tame old-school fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2010

It's a flawless mix of paranoid suspense, pacing, timing and even comedy.

| Jul 30, 2009

Mais interessado em explorar a inabalável fleuma britânica como fonte de humor do que em realmente criar um suspense intrigante, este é um dos últimos exemplares da primeira fase da carreira de Hitchcock e diverte mais do que impressiona.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2009

The formula of an innocent thrust into a nightmare would fascinate Hitch for decades to come, but here he packs the tale with strong characters and important details.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2009

This film, minus the deft and artistic handling of the director, Alfred Hitchcock, despite its cast and photography, would not stand up for Grade A candidacy.

| Mar 26, 2009