16.8.10

the lady vanishes (1979)


“Maybe that crazy dame with the wild body and lack of a bra was right…”
Amanda Kelly (Cybill Shephard) is an annoyingly loud American adrift in pre-nazi Germany. She is making her way to London when she meets a quaint lady called Mrs Froy (Angela Lansbury) on the train. When the lady subsequently goes missing Amanda is determined to find her, but all the passengers and staff on the train say they don’t remember the lady. The only help she can get is from fellow American Robert Condon (Elliot Gould), but he doesn’t believe Mrs Froy existed either.
Re-make of the Hitchcock film, which shockingly is actually quite good. With a nice chemistry developing between the two leads. The original still has the high ground, but this is not far behind.

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