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Is anything what it seems?
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
The Lady Vanishes
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Tuppence Middleton Tom Hughes Keeley Hawes Julian Rhind-Tutt Alex Jennings Stephanie Cole Gemma Jones Selina Cadell Jesper Christensen Daisy Lewis Benedikte Hansen Beatrix Biro Marta Bolfan Vilmos Cservenák Zsuzsa David Emerald Fennell Balázs Galkó Tamás Lengyel Katharine Bubbear Lysander Barron Jack Fayter
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Londoni randevú, Леди исчезает, 贵妇失踪案
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03 Apr 2017
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17 Mar 2013
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03 Apr 2017
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a pale facsimile of the original, but tom hughes is adorable and sapphic charters and caldicott were the best part of the whole movie.
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The latest version of The Lady Vanishes from the BBC has already come in for some sniffy flak and scepticism with many asking who would want to remake a Hitchcock classic, and indeed why?
Well this is a query seemingly ignorant or forgetful of the fact that Hammer did just that in 1979 with Cybill Shepherd and Elliot Gould.
They equally seem forgetful or ignorant of the fact that this adaptation is actually of the original novel 'The Wheel Spins' by Ethel Lina White, which has been reprinted time over down the years as 'The Lady Vanishes' and not an adaptation or a remake of Hitchcock's film.Not content others have chosen to speculate over the postponement of this film,…
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I love Hitch's classic version and even have a soft spot for the Elliot Gould/Cybil Shepherd 70s remake but this BBC tv version is humourless and totally devoid of any tension. Tuppence Middleton's rich brat Iris was insufferable and I would have been quite happy if someone dumped her off the train in the middle of nowhere. Really poor effort wasting a decent cast of actors.
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So lifeless. So boring. So bad. It’s weird that the 2013 adaptation bears even a passing resemblance to the irrepressible marvel that is Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 version because every time I considered some artistic decision made by this BBC/Masterpiece (how could you???) atrocity and compared it to Hitchcock's adaptation, I found that the two films had made diametrically opposed choices. So how they resemble each other at all is beyond me but what I do know is I hated this dreck parade and it took me five days to finish because by the end I could only watch a few minutes at a time. I don’t know why I finished it at all. I don't know why it was made. I don’t know anything. Not anymore.
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43/100
I've only seen the Cybill Shepherd version and whilst it wasn't great it honestly looks like an Oscar winner next to this. I can't be too harsh as this is a low budget made for TV adaptation but it's poor by the BBC's standards.
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So glad the last time I was sick on the plane I didn’t have to also solve an elaborate murder plot
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At first glance you might assume that this film is an updated wanna-be Hitchcock’s classic, “The Lady Vanishes.” But that’s not the case. Here we actually have more of an original take from the novel, “The Wheel Spins” by British author, Ethel Lina White which Hitchcock’s 1938 movie, “The Lady Vanishes” is loosely based upon. Hitchcock and a few writers made it into a more hyped up version of the novel and his version had a little more imagination, espionage, and a shootout to boot. We have to appreciate the BBC’s dedication for sticking to the book. If you try to compare the two, this one will disappoint.
So with that in mind, I enjoyed the adventure this adaptation took me… -
tom hughes could play a beautiful man in hitchcock’s movie but hitchcock couldn’t play a beautiful man in tom hughes’ movie.
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I guess it’s first important to state that, although it keeps the title name The Lady Vanishes, this is not a remake of Hitchcock’s classic but an adaptation of the source novel, The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. And I had a pretty good time with it. For an hour and a half, I closed the blinds from the wind, rain and gloom outside, imagined it was still the Christmas holidays and that I’d just settled down with family after a meal to watch a BBC holiday special. True, Tuppence Middleton’s Iris is an irritating character, there’s not nearly enough Keeley Hawes, and the mystery is finally resolved way too quickly. Yet otherwise this was an entertaining train ride (with beautifully upholstered carriages) and just the kind of comfort viewing I needed.
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The lead character is not very likeable in this. That wouldn't be a complaint for me normally but when you're stepping into Cybil Shepherd's shoes...
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