Eine Dame verschwindet

Originaltitel: The Lady Vanishes

1938
12
1 Std. 36 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,7/10

58.783

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.829

1.110

trailer wiedergeben1:22

1 Video

99+ Fotos

Psychological Thriller Spy Mystery Thriller

Während einer Reise durch Kontinentaleuropa stellt ein reiches junges Playgirl fest, dass eine ältere Dame aus dem Zug verschwunden zu sein scheint.Während einer Reise durch Kontinentaleuropa stellt ein reiches junges Playgirl fest, dass eine ältere Dame aus dem Zug verschwunden zu sein scheint.Während einer Reise durch Kontinentaleuropa stellt ein reiches junges Playgirl fest, dass eine ältere Dame aus dem Zug verschwunden zu sein scheint.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,7/10

58.783

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.829

1.110

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Gewinn & 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
In order to get a realistic effect, Sir Alfred Hitchcock insisted that there should be no background music except at the beginning and the end. Between those two points, the only music heard is the music sung by the musician outside the hotel, the music tune of Miss Froy, the "Colonel Bogey March" music hummed by Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), the dance music conducted by Gilbert in his hotel room, and the dance music when Iris (Margaret Lockwood) meets Gilbert in the train.

Patzer
In the noisy dancing scene above Lockwood's hotel room, the clarinet is shown with the mouthpiece turned with the reed upwards. Normally the mouthpiece is turned so that the reed is downwards, but in some European folk traditions the clarinet was played with the mouthpiece "upside-down".

Zitate
Gilbert: Can I help?
Iris Henderson: Only by going away.
Gilbert: No, no, no, no. My father always taught me, never desert a lady in trouble. He even carried that as far as marrying Mother.

Crazy Credits
Closing credits: The Characters in "THE LADY VANISHES" were played by:

Alternative Versionen
A brief segment where a hotel maid bends down to pick up a hat from under a hotel bed is missing from most US releases, including Criterion's first official DVD and all bootlegs. It's intact in all official non-US releases and has been restored for Criterion's 2-disc remastered DVD.

Verbindungen
Edited from Otto, zieh' die Bremse an! (1937)

Soundtracks
Colonel Bogey March
(1914) (uncredited)
Music by Kenneth Alford
Hummed by Michael Redgrave

Benutzerrezensionen287

Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

Even better than I expected.

"Well, anyway, I refuse to be discouraged. Faint heart never found old lady."

Ah, this was a great movie! One of Hitch's best, and certainly one of his most entertaining. It was funny, thrilling, and just plain old fun to watch.

The story is quite simple. A sweet old lady disappears on a train, and the only person who admits ever seeing her, is a young woman who met her the night before. As she searches for the old lady, she's helped by a roguish young man, and they soon begin to wonder just who this lady is, where she went, and why on earth would so many people go through so much trouble to make it seem like she never existed. It all makes for a very compelling mystery.

The Lady Vanishes features some of the best characters I've ever seen in a Hitchcock film. Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave were great as the two main protagonists, and the witty banter between the two was equaled only by the two dry, cricket-obsessed Englishmen who provided so much of the humor of the film. I found this movie to be similar to Rear Window (no wonder I enjoyed it so much), as there are many subplots among the minor characters that are almost as interesting as the main story.

I firmly believe that this is the best I've seen of Hitchcock's early movies. It has everything from shootouts to nuns in high heels. The Lady Vanishes will convert you to being a fan of Alfred, if you're somehow (drugs?) not already.