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

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

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

| Aug 13, 2014

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

A pleasure.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Both a neat comment on Britain's dilemma in the build-up to the impending war with Germany (to appease or not to appease?) and also a cracking piece of entertainment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2008

What separates Lady Vanishes

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 26, 2007

This is vintage Hitchcock, with the pacing and superb editing that marked not only his 30s style but eventually every film that had any aspirations whatever to achieving suspense and rhythm.

| Jan 19, 2007

Very much of its time (in a good way), and very enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2006

Just in under the wire to challenge for a place on the year's best ten is The Lady Vanishes, latest of the melodramatic classics made by England's greatest director, Alfred Hitchcock.

| May 20, 2003

This British Hitchcock picture is one of the master's best.

| Mar 10, 2003