CLASSIC MOVIES: THE LADY VANISHES (1938)

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Brief Movie Synopsis [courtesy of Turner Classic Movies]:

A young woman on vacation triggers an
international incident when she tries to
track an elderly friend who has disappeared.

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REVIEWS:

"The Lady Vanishes...[is the] latest of the melodramatic classics made by England's greatest director, Alfred Hitchcock. If it were not so brilliant a melodrama, we should class it as a brilliant comedy. .... When your sides are not aching from laughter your brain is throbbing in its attempts to outguess the director. .... There isn't an incident, be it as trivial as an old woman's chatter about her favorite brand of tea, that hasn't a pertinent bearing
on the plot. Everything that happens is a clue. And, having given you
fair warning, we still defy you to outguess that rotund spider, Hitch.
The man is diabolical; his film is devilishly clever."

-- Excerpt from The New York Times; December 26, 1938