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Title:
The lady vanishes [BLU-RAY] / GB Pictures presents ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screen play, Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder ; a "Gainsborough" picture.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"Based upon the novel The wheel spins by Eithel Lina White."

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938.

"Copyright by Gaumont British Corporation of America, 1938."

Special features: audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder; Crook's tour, a 1941 feature-length adventure film directed by John Baxter; excerpts from François Truffaut's 1966 audio interview with director Alfred Hitchcock; Mystery train, a video essay by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Liff; stills gallery.

Blu-ray disc, region A, full screen (aspect ratio: 1.33:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Summary:
A nice, tweedy old English woman disappears from her compartment on a European train. A young woman who wonders why becomes frantic when everyone tells her there never was such a person. A young man comes to her aid and they solve a criss-cross puzzle of espoinage, counter-espionage and attempted assassination.
Subject Term:
Disappeared persons -- Drama.

Railroad travel--Europe, Eastern -- Drama

Espionage -- Drama

Blu-ray discs
Genre:
Films for people who are deaf or hard of hearing

Detective and mystery films

Feature films

Film adaptations

Spy films

Video recordings for people who are deaf or hard of hearing
Added Author:
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980

Gilliat, Sidney

Launder, Frank

Lockwood, Margaret

Lukas, Paul, 1894-1971

Redgrave, Michael

Whitty, May, Dame, 1865-1948

Parker, Cecil, 1897-1971

Truffaut, François

Eder, Bruce

Baxter, John, 1896-1975

White, Ethel Lina

White, Ethel Lina. Wheel spins
Added Corporate Author:
Gainsborough Studios

Gaumont British Picture Corp

Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title:
Wheel spins.

Crook's tour.
Language Note:
In English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Series Title:
Criterion collection ;
Series Sequence:
Criterion collection ; 3
Performer:
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford.
Production Credits:
Cinematography, Jack Cox; editing, R.E. Dearing; musical director, Louis Levy.
OCLC Number:
ocn755101901
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
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