The Lady Vanishes

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The Lady Vanishes

PG

1979

1h 39m

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

Romance

Action

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6 Reviews

44%

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In the years before World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury), who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, Amanda questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon (Elliott Gould) to discover the truth.

Fernando Trueba

El Pais (Spain)

08/07/2019

Some changes in the dialogue and logical modifications are the few innovations in this remake that is still pleasant to watch. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

06/15/2005

1/5

Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

06/13/2005

1/5

Hapless remake of the Hitchcock classic

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

01/02/2005

3/5

Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

08/22/2003

2/5

Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

06/23/2003

1/5

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Adrian W

Jan 20

I signed up to rotten tomatoes purely to say this is one of my favourite films. No one else seems to agree but hey. Do not compare it with other films but watch it for its own sake

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08/19/2020

One of Alfred Hitchcock's not-so-great remakes, this 1979 film provides a good cast and story. But this film takes all of Alfred Hitchcock's classic elements of the original and turns it into more of a comedy, rather than a comedy-thriller classic.

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02/06/2015

Cybill is very beautiful but completely miscast in this unnecessary remake of the Hitchcock classic. Gould joins her in being remarkably wrong for his role. Thank goodness Angela Lansbury is aboard to lend at least a few minutes of class to this plodding affair.

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02/28/2014

Someone should have stolen away with Cybill instead--The Charm Vanishes!!

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02/14/2014

(32%) The very last Hammer flick before its recent rebirth is a mildly entertaining Hitchcock remake that is as unremarkable as they come. The cast is good and nothing is terrible, but it is easy to see why this slipped through the net and nobody saw it back in the day.

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08/27/2011

I'm one of the few people you'll meet who enjoyed this.Having never seen the original my opinion was not jaded, it has its problems, not least some overbearing exchanges from the leads but on the whole, good fun.

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Synopsis

In the years before World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury), who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, Amanda questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon (Elliott Gould) to discover the truth.

Director: Anthony Page
Screenwriter: George Axelrod
Production Co: Hammer Films, Sanrio Company, The Rank Organisation
Rating: PG
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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