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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
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"An interesting little gem. The film begins with just enough interesting character development to keep you from hitting "eject," and you'll be glad you stuck with it. From then on, the tension is cranked to near intolerable levels, but in the good Hitchcock way. I can't remember a film where suspense has been sustained for the entire last 3/4 of the run time. The Lady Vanishes is escapism at its finest and an experience that you won't forget. "
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"One of the most repeated themes in films was originally perfected by Hitchcock in this masterpiece. The stories of people going missing without a trace and a lonely soul fighting against all odds to prove that the missing person exists has been retold after Lady Vanishes umpteen times and most recently in the Jodie Foster film "Flight Plan" but none of them can come anywhere near Hitchcock. The fast pace of the film its excellent actors and the settings in Black and White make it memorable. The "Secret Agent" Miss Froy itself is the most unlikely spy one may think of but the story telling and the Director makes it plausible. The period setting of the film makes it obvious that the villains are Nazis but steers away from calling them so but does not restrain itself in depicting them as despicable villains telling the world in 1939 what it was in store for. What more than to call it an unforgettable Classic. Krishna Kumar Menon, Chennai(Madras), India. "
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"I'm so far behind that these are going to be super short (even for me). Maybe I can catch up. The Lady Vanishes, an Alfred Hitchcock ("Family Plot") movie mostly set in the confines of a train, is a mystery where one woman notices another has gone missing, but no one believes her. Of course. Good. Of course. But not Hitch's best. I liked Marnie, another Hitchcock film, better. Tippi Hedren ("Dead White") stars as a con girl who falls for her mark, Sean Connery ("The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"). But then he turns the tables on her. There's also fits of hysterics, horses, crazy mothers, color flashbacks and birds. Different than the average Hitchcock, still very suspenseful and good. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers was definitely strange. A young girl kills her overbearing aunt, but a friend witnesses the event and things change forever. Most of the story occurs when the participants are grown-up and full of bitter mind games. This is classified as a film noir, so it has ... "
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"Alright, it’s not actually a film review, but in a letter of correspondence from 1981, to lover Janet Eagleson, the Catcher in the Rye author does pan the original Indiana Jones film. However, it’s difficult to say the man doesn’t have good taste in movies. In the same handwritten note, he also mention that he enjoyed Truffaut’s The Last Metro. Behold the great American novelist’s actual words: …Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro…I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors… I guess it’s not all that amazing, but I find Salinger’s comments interesting because I’d always figured he was a curmudgeonly hater of films. Part of my misconception is due to Holden Caulfield’s attitude toward cinema in Catcher, and part is due to Salinger’s refusal to permit a movie adaptation of Catcher or any other works post-My Foolish Heart (an adaptation of Salinger ... "
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