Returning home from the Balkans during the 1930's, Iris Carr boards a train. Before she boarded she suffered a blow to the head when she fell down. She is befriended by a Miss Froy. She is a former governess to a family headed by a baroness traveling with her poorly sister and medical staff. When Miss Froy disappears, everyone denies ever seeing her?? They are claiming that Iris must have imagined Miss Froy because of the knock to her head. Only language student Max Hare is sympathetic and even he has his doubts.
A German woman is produced and passed off as the missing lady?? Max unwittingly becomes part of the plot to dissuade Iris from her search for the truth. This film was originally intended to air around Christmas 2012 but it was delayed.
Special Note: If you look carefully, there are red letters in some of the crew's names. In order, they spell out "The Wheel Spins," the novel by Ethel Lena White on which this movie is based. Three different versions of the Lady Vanishes were written by George Axelrod for ABC but none of them were filmed. The rights reverted to Rank Films and then it was made into a movie.
90 min, mystery directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and written by Fiona Seres, Ethel Lina White with Charles Aitken, Paolo Antonio Simioni, Beatrix Biro, Marta Bolfan, Selina Cadell, Jesper Christensen, Stephanie Cole, Vilmos Cserenak, Zsuzsa David, Emeral Fennell, Balazs Galko, Daniel Gosling, Istvan Gyurity, Benedikte Hansen, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hughes.
Note: Imdb 6.1 out of 10* with 2K ratings, Rotten Tomatoes 39% with 50+ ratings, SFgate.com sitting up in the seat David Wiegand.
Special Note: Other versions of The Lady Vanishes were released in 1938 (directed by Alfred Hitchcock), 1992 and 2008. It is interesting to see some of the characters from other British movies and TV shows in this 2013 film!!
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