Sarah Boslaugh TheArtsStl May 30, 2026 8/10

[The Lady Vanishes] snuck some political criticism past censors by creating characters that exemplified different approaches to crisis, from appeasement to isolation to risking yourself for a righteous cause.

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Sean Burns Crooked Marquee Jul 26, 2025

The movie remains marvelous, frothy and funny in a manner Hitchcock would not attempt again until 'North By Northwest.'

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Jul 17, 2025 4/4

The Lady Vanishes vies with 1935’s The 39 Steps as the greatest picture from Hitchcock's early UK years.

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Otis Ferguson The New Republic Dec 26, 2023

More than any of the English-speaking film men, Hitchcock is a one-man show, getting every detail straight in his head and the way he wants it before the first camera starts rolling.

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Aug 19, 2023

Hitchcock effortlessly navigates this vivid thriller from light comedy to high tension and back again, creating one of his most enchanting and entertaining mysteries.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Oct 10, 2022

An enjoyable mystery...

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John C. Mosher The New Yorker Aug 11, 2022

As full of surprises, horrors, thrills, even humor, as the other Hitchcock productions.

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Archer Winsten New York Post Aug 11, 2022

Here is another world of violence, humor and menace, miraculously wrought out of base ingredients. Mr. Hitchcock should be hailed as the wizard who has discovered the secret of making silk purses out of sow’s ears.

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James T. Hamada The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu) Apr 15, 2020

A powerful story of espionage and treachery.

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Aurelio Pego Cine-Mundial Sep 10, 2019

The true star is the director... who has made an excellent movie.

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Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 6, 2019 4/4

A snappy, witty, dryly funny testament to British perseverance and tea time that cannot and should not be ignored when discussing the master's finest work.

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MFB Critics Monthly Film Bulletin Feb 22, 2017

Alfred Hitchcock has directed The Lady Vanishes with all his individual expertness of touch and this is an out of the ordinary and exciting thriller.

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Philip French Observer (UK) Aug 13, 2014

It's the greatest-ever comedy-thriller, the greatest film set on a train, a faultlessly cast mirror held up to the nation in the year of Munich.

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David Keyes Cinemaphile.org Apr 19, 2014

It remains the most complex and enlivening of Hitchcock's earliest films.

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Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Aug 2, 2013

Enormously entertaining mystery-comedy, that is also filled with feminist and political commentary.

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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Jan 31, 2012 3.5/4

this director at this moment in his career, back when he was still more clever than cruel.

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Charles Cassady Common Sense Media Nov 9, 2010 3/5

Hitchcock comedy thriller is tame old-school fun.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Jul 30, 2009

It's a flawless mix of paranoid suspense, pacing, timing and even comedy.

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Apr 18, 2009 3/5

Mais interessado em explorar a inabalável fleuma britânica como fonte de humor do que em realmente criar um suspense intrigante, este é um dos últimos exemplares da primeira fase da carreira de Hitchcock e diverte mais do que impressiona.

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