The Lady Vanishes
Studio: Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, Ethel Lina White
Producer: Edward Black
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, the film is about an English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her older travelling companion seems to have vanished.
Trivia
- Based on The Wheel Spins (1936 novel by Ethel Lina White).
- The Lady Vanishes was originally called The Lost Lady, and Irish director Roy William Neill was assigned by producer Edward Black to make it.
- A crew was dispatched to Yugoslavia to do background shots, but when the Yugoslav police accidentally discovered that they were not well-portrayed in the script, they kicked the crew out of the country, and Black scrapped the project.
- A year later, Hitchcock could not come up with a property to direct to fulfil his contract with Black, so he accepted when Black offered The Lost Lady to him.
Filming Locations
- The film was shot at Islington Studios, Shepherd's Bush and on location in Hampshire at Longmoor Military Camp, the site of the Longmoor Military Railway.
Previous Showings
15 Runs • 12 Festivals
23,820 tickets sold
All runs on record (15):
- January 22 - 23, 1990 · 705 ticketsw/ The 39 Steps
- July 10 - 13, 1993 · 1,941 ticketsw/ Young and Innocent
- February 19 - 23, 2000 · 4,444 ticketsHitchcock 2000w/ Young and Innocent
- April 8 - 10, 2005 · 1,601 ticketsw/ Suspicion
- January 25 - 28, 2008 · 1,794 ticketsHITCHCOCK: Ten Weeks of the films of the Master of Suspensew/ Young and Innocent
- September 1 - 3, 2009 · 681 ticketsHITCHCOCKw/ Young and Innocent
- August 27 - September 2, 2011 · 2,289 ticketsSummer 2011w/ The 39 Steps
- February 7 - 10, 2013 · 1,925 ticketsHitchcock 2013w/ The 39 Steps
- February 12 - 15, 2015 · 2,189 ticketsHitchcock 2015w/ Strangers on a Train
- April 7 - 10, 2016 · 1,912 ticketsHitchcock 2016w/ Strangers on a Train
- January 27 - 29, 2017 · 758 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ The Wicked Lady
- March 13 - 14, 2019 · 356 ticketsHitchcock, Master of Suspensew/ Young and Innocent
- April 20 - 21, 2024 · 1,050 ticketsHitchcock, The Master of Suspensew/ The 39 Steps
- June 18 - 19, 2025 · 636 ticketsHitchcock, The Master of Suspensew/ The 39 Steps
- April 25 - 26, 2026 · 1,539 ticketsHitchcock, The Master of Suspensew/ Rebecca