Screening Dates: 11 February 2026, Wednesday, 8:00 pm / 28 February 2026, Saturday, 6:30 pm / 25 March 2026, Wednesday, 8:00 pm

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Ethel Lina White, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

United Kingdom / 1938 / 96 min / Black & White / English, German, French, Italian / Turkish subtitles

In a fictional corner of Europe, a group of travelers waiting for a train are forced to extend their stay after an avalanche blocks the route. Among those obliged to spend the night there are the young and beautiful Iris Henderson and the elderly Miss Froy. While Iris quarrels with her ethnomusicologist fellow traveler, Miss Froy witnesses a murder she cannot fully make sense of. The following day, Iris and Miss Froy travel together on the train, but the older woman soon vanishes without a trace. Although the other passengers insist that such a woman never existed, Iris remains certain she saw her and, with the help of the young man she had argued with at the hotel, sets out to uncover the truth.

Regarded as the pinnacle of Hitchcock’s British period and the film that brought him to Hollywood’s attention, The Lady Vanishes is considered by some critics to be the director’s most overtly political work. Set on the eve of World War II, the film compresses Europe’s collective psychology of denial into the microcosm of a train, where humor survives only as a faint undertone.

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