Load of rubbish!!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I'm writing this review because I really enjoyed this remake of "The Lady Vanishes" When I looked it up on IMB it had a low rating and not very kind reviews,after watching it i wanted to let others know Its very good. British TV at its best with an excellent performance from Tuppence Middleton as the socialite Ms Carr and the wonderful Tom Hughes. The Vicar and his wife were also very convincing and very real performers. This is my favorite period in history, just before the war, the clothes are wonderful with the young people rich and glamorous seemingly having it all with there frivolous fun filled holiday in Italy, with the other hotel members frowning on there loose morals, Ms Carr the rudest of them. This is all very well set up as the train journey begins the story twists and turns with everyone playing there part so well as the suspense is building. Its a top notch remake of a great story with the best ending! Very well done by all the actors involved.

There was clearly a commitment to deliver a high quality remake here... and in many ways it is just that. High production values, location filming, excellent cast, and a leading lady with the charm and edge necessary to bring a potentially unsympathetic character to life. In fact ion another day this would indeed have been a star making turn. Sadly though, all the worthy intentions of the films makers, in particular the unnecessary lengthening of the opening piece, the addition of the girls back story, etc. put a drag on the film that it takes almost the entirety of the rest of the movie to overcome. Those worthy intentions which are also apparent in the reshaping of the earlier films comedy characters Chalmers & Caldicot, (two Colonel Blimp type figures that leavened the earlier film with humour at just the right moments) into two equally stereotypical, but far less humorous Maiden Aunt types. Then just as the films slow start and general heaviness are fading and the stories drama begins to take hold, it jettisons all that Hitchcock brought to the final scenes, dispensing with the coming together of so many disparate types with all their flaws and foolishness in the face of a common and soon to be tyrannical enemy, and fades out with damp squib, supposedly more plausible in its own dull way, as if plausibility is essential for suspense! Dear film makers, Hitch knew what he was doing, beware of thinking you know better.

I think I may have seen the Hitchcock original, in the dim and distant past, round my grandparents house while playing Kerplunk. Needless to say, my memories of it are hazy at best, so I can hardly compare it to this made for TV modern version.Keeley Hawes plays the heroine who eventually feels the whole world is conspiring against her, and although I think there may be a few more clues to the solution compared to the 1938 classic, this doesn't make the frustration we feel for her predicament or the confusion as to what the hell's going on any less palpable.Online talk has dismissed this remake as a cheap copy, but you know what? Judged on it's own merits, it's a super piece of entertainment, and all the moaners can get a life. NOTHING these days is unique, everything has been ripped off and imitated to the ninth degree, so why waste time worrying? ENJOY YOURSELF!! 7/10

I should say that the excellent cast should in no way feel any responsibility for this flop of a remake, after all you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. However the writer should be commended not only for the Lady Vanishing but also the iconic characters, Charters and Caldicott, on top of which they also managed to Vanish any hint of suspense. I can only assume that they had never seen the original 1938 version of the British comic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launderand. This classic starred Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave and was both critically acclaimed as a masterpiece and was a box office smash. In fact even director Anthony Pages 1979 remake, though a pale imitation of Hitchcock's original, was a far superior offering than the one served up in this adaptation.