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title: 'The Lady Vanishes (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alfred Hitchcock'
released: '1938-10-07'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Romance'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-lady-vanishes-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Lady Vanishes (1938)

1938 · 96 min · Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Mystery · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

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. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the older lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist. Together they search the train for clues to the woman's disappearance.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- **Screenplay:** [Ethel Lina White](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethel-lina-white), [Sidney Gilliat](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-gilliat), [Frank Launder](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-launder)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Charles Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-williams-4)
- **Producer:** [Edward Black](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-black)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jack E. Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-e-cox)
- **Editor:** [R.E. Dearing](https://cinepixo.com/people/r-e-dearing)

## Cast

- [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- [May Whitty](https://cinepixo.com/people/may-whitty)
- [Cecil Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-parker)
- [Linden Travers](https://cinepixo.com/people/linden-travers)
- [Mary Clare](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-clare)
- [Catherine Lacey](https://cinepixo.com/people/catherine-lacey)
- [Basil Radford](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-radford) as Charters
- [Naunton Wayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/naunton-wayne) as Caldicott
- [Margaret Lockwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-lockwood)
- [Michael Redgrave](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-redgrave)
- [Paul Lukas](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-lukas)
- [Googie Withers](https://cinepixo.com/people/googie-withers)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-lady-vanishes-1938
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