Blu-ray Review The Lady Vanishes Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Cranston37+]

After reading all the positive posts in this thread, I turned on The Criterion Channel, reclined back in my theater chair, and viewed THE LADY VANISHES for the very first time.

Ron,

I'm curious after reading this - how does a streaming source like Criterion Channel look on a large screen like you have (I'm assuming you are talking about your projection screen)?

 

[Robert Crawford]

If you liked Lady Vanishes, take a peek at Night Train To Munich, also from Criterion. It’s not a Hitchcock film and not technically a sequel, but Caldicott and Charters appear and it has another good tense plot.

I didn't see this post when you posted it, but as soon as I viewed my Criterion BD again of "The Lady Vanishes" to check to see if it became defective, I thought about "Night Train To Munich" when I saw Caldicott and Charters again. I forgot that Basil Radford and Wayne Naunton appeared in both films. Also, I enjoyed hearing "Colonel Bogey March"/"Bridge on the River Kwai" again in "The Lady Vanishes" along with Sir Alfred Hitchcock's cameo at the train station near the end of the film.

I'm actually watching this film twice as I'm making this post with the audio commentary playing in the background.

By the way, it's a shame Margaret Lockwood didn't do more Hollywood movies. I suspect she didn't want to leave England.

 

[Matt Hough]

I watched this tonight after being away from it for a long time. Just as entertaining and memorable as always.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

It's my favorite Hitchcock film.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Night Train To Munich up next?

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I had, at different times, lunch with two of the actresses in this. Margaret Lockwood, and Googie Withers. Both still very lovely, vivacious and totally charming.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

The Lady Vanishes is a great film and when i discovered that the MGM HD channel was going to broadcast the 1979 version i had to watch it. I just finished watching it and it's a terrible film with Cybill Shepherd and Elliot Gould not at their best and the whole thing seemed goofy to me. Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael in the Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne roles of cricket-mad Charters and Caldicott were a dull bore to me. It was a box office flop and the last film Hammer Films made.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I never saw this remake and never will after your warning ... .but how extraordinary that Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael couldn't carry off those comic roles. On paper they must have seemed perfect.

 

[Matt Hough]

Angela Lansbury was well cast as Miss Froy, but even she can't save it.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

A big fan of Herbert Lom so it was nice seeing him in the film as the doctor.