The Lady Vanishes (#3) (The Criterion Collection)[USA]

[darczap]

Release date: December 6, 2011
Purchase: Amazon

United Kingdom
1938
96 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English

In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty), who then seems to disappear into thin air. The younger woman turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. Also starring Michael Redgrave, The Lady Vanishes remains one of the great filmmaker’s purest delights.

Disc Features:

1. New, restored high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
2. Audio commentary featuring film historian Bruce Eder
3. Crook’s Tour, a 1941 feature-length adventure film starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as Charters and Caldicott, their beloved characters from The Lady Vanishes
4. Excerpts from François Truffaut’s legendary 1962 audio interview with director Alfred Hitchcock
5. Mystery Train, a video essay about Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff
6. Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art
7. New essays by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr

Three reasons:

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[pmartin252]

Watched this last night, Another great remastering job from Criterion. Been googling since watching, because of the plot holes. Can't find anything about the fact that near the end, the officer with the gun, who boards the train to try to trick them into going back to the station with him, just disappears when they get over the border. Very strange - but otherwise a great film from the master - Hitchcock!

 

[blutru]

still on sale on amazon for $17.99...but i'm too broke to buy it right now

 

[Horhay]

Added three reasons to OP.