A rather charmless remake of Hitchcock's classic 1938 comedy thriller, adding nothing of value and subtracting everything of significance. [04 Dec 2005, p.119]
The Lady Vanishes
United Kingdom · 1979
Rated PG · 1h 37m
Director Anthony Page
Starring Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom
Genre Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
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Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other passengers are led into confrontation with the Nazis and a desperate race for freedom.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Jay Scott
Everything about the remake is inferior to the Hitchcock classic. [01 Dec 1980]
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