.seo-fallback{max-width:46rem;margin:0 auto;padding:2.5rem 1.25rem 4rem; font:16px/1.6 Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;color:#EDE9F5;background:#0E0A1B} .seo-fallback a{color:#FFCA3A} .seo-fallback h1{font-size:1.75rem;line-height:1.2;margin:.5rem 0 1rem} .seo-fallback h2{font-size:1.05rem;margin:2rem 0 .5rem;color:#9C93B8; text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.08em} .seo-fallback ul{padding-left:1.1rem;margin:.5rem 0} .seo-fallback li{margin:.3rem 0} .seo-fallback .seo-meta{color:#9C93B8;font-size:.9rem} .seo-fallback .seo-note{margin-top:2.5rem;color:#9C93B8;font-size:.85rem; border-top:1px solid #2A2340;padding-top:1rem}

FilmSkool — a free film school

The Lady Vanishes (1939)

Name: The Lady Vanishes
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: spy film, thriller film, suspense film
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 7.7

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Jack E. Cox · Cut by R.E. Dearing · Music by Charles Williams · 96 min

How it was made

Hitchcock's sound design favours a 'classical style' of realistic, source-based sound over expressionistic effects: when Iris faints on the train, only the sound of the train itself is heard rather than added noises to signal delirium.
The villainous Dr Hartz is frequently heard before he is shown on screen, an aural technique used to build unease ahead of his appearances.
Filming was briefly interrupted by an electricians' strike.
The comic double-act Charters and Caldicott, played by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford, were created specifically for the film and do not appear in Ethel Lina White's source novel.
Michael Redgrave and Hitchcock clashed on set, as Redgrave wanted more rehearsal while Hitchcock favoured spontaneity; the two never worked together again despite the film making Redgrave, in his first leading role, an international star.
Shooting took place at Islington Studios and Shepherd's Bush, with location filming at Longmoor Military Camp in Hampshire.

Elsewhere

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

This is the plain index, shown because JavaScript is off. Every lesson here is a free video published by the channel credited on it and plays through that channel's own embed — FilmSkool hosts nothing.