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The Lady Vanishes

FILM · 1938 · UK

The Lady Vanishes

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Runtime
96 min
Studio
Gainsborough Pictures

91 archived facts 6 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair…

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Interesting Facts (17)

  1. #001

    To avoid political controversy, the British Board of Film Censors did not allow the foreign villains to be specifically identified as German in the script.

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  2. #002

    The cricket-obsessed characters Charters and Caldicott were created specifically for this film and do not appear in the novel written by Ethel Lina White.

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  3. #003

    In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Alfred Hitchcock explained that the film was inspired by the legend of an Englishwoman travelling to a hotel in Paris with her daughter during the Great Exhibition in the 1880s: "The woman became ill and the daughter was sent in a horse-drawn cab to the other end of Paris to get medicine, so the errand took about four hours. When she returned, she asked, 'How is my mother?' 'Which mother?' 'My mother. She's here, in her room. Room 22.' They go up there. Different room, different wallpaper, everything. And the payoff of the whole story, according to the legend, is this: the woman had bubonic plague and they didn't dare tell anyone she had died, otherwise all of Paris would have fled." The urban legend known as the Vanishing Hotel Room also formed the basis of the German portmanteau film Eerie Tales (1919), So Long at the Fair (1950), in which the missing person is the young woman's brother rather than her mother, and an episode of Into Thin Air (1955) starring Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock.

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  4. #004

    François Truffaut named the film his favourite among Alfred Hitchcock's films, and said that whenever he tried to study the film's trick shots and camera movements, he became too caught up in the plot to notice them.

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  5. #005

    The production used a main train set only 25 metres long, in one of the smaller stages at Islington Studios.

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  6. #006

    The guitarist was strangled by disembodied hands as he played beneath Miss Froy's hotel window, because he was passing on the details of the secret agreement to her in the form of a coded folk song.

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  7. #007

    Orson Welles was reported to have watched the film eleven times.

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  8. #008

    Michael Redgrave was a stage actor and was reluctant to make the film, but was persuaded to do it by John Gielgud.

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  9. #009

    It was shot almost entirely at Islington Studios in London. The landscape the train passes through is entirely rear projection.

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  10. #010

    The film was Michael Redgrave's first feature film, in the role of Gilbert Redman.

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  11. #011

    The original copyright holder's failure to renew the copyright placed the film in the public domain and allowed almost anyone to duplicate and sell VHS or DVD copies; as a result, many versions on the market are severely and often badly edited or of extremely low quality, copied from second-generation, third-generation or later copies. As of November 2018, the Criterion Collection offers the film in a restored Blu-ray release.

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  12. #012

    According to assistant director Roy Ward Baker, Sir Alfred Hitchcock was thoroughly organised in relation to every stage of the shoot. Hitchcock was also seen to treat his production crew with respect.

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  13. #013

    Filming was briefly interrupted because of a strike by electricians.

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  14. #014

    Magnums of Champagne are 1.5-litre bottles equal to 2 standard Champagne bottles and serve about 12 people. Champagne matures better and more slowly in a magnum.

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  15. #015

    With Googie Withers's (Blanche) death in 2011, all of the credited cast members had died.

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  16. #016

    A brief shot of a ferry bringing Iris and Gilbert back to England from the European mainland across the English Channel also appears as the Irish Sea ferry in Will Hay's film Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937).

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  17. #017

    Like many of Alfred Hitchcock's British-period films, the film was not released in Italian cinemas. Its Italian-dubbed version was broadcast on Italian television only in 1978.

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Production Story (36)

  1. #018

    The British Board of Film Censors did not allow the foreign villains in the script to be explicitly identified as German, in order to avoid political controversy.

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  2. #019

    The cricket-obsessed characters Charters and Caldicott were created specifically for this film; they do not appear in Ethel Lina White's novel.

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  3. #020

    In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Alfred Hitchcock said the film was inspired by the legend of an Englishwoman who traveled to the Palace Hotel in Paris with her daughter during the Great Exhibition of the 1880s and disappeared: The woman falls ill, and her daughter sets out on a four-hour journey by horse-drawn carriage to get medicine; when she returns, she asks for her mother, but the hotel staff say they do not know such a person. When they go up to the room, they find everything different. According to the legend, the woman had caught bubonic plague and her death was concealed, otherwise all of Paris would have fled. Known as the 'Vanishing Hotel Room,' this urban legend also inspired films such as the German production Eerie Tales (1919), So Long at the Fair (1950) and Into Thin Air (1955), which starred Hitchcock's daughter Patricia.

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  4. #021

    After the success of this film, Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave were to appear together in a series of projects for Gaumont-British-Dominions, including adaptations of 'The Blue Lagoon,' 'Rob Roy' and 'A Room with a View.' However, none of these films were made; the pair later reunited on The Stars Look Down (1940).

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  5. #022

    Because the original copyright holder did not renew it, the film fell into the public domain, which allowed almost anyone to duplicate and sell VHS or DVD copies of it. As a result, many versions on the market are either heavily (and often badly) edited or of extremely low quality because they were copied from second- or third-generation copies. As of November 2018, the film is available as a Criterion Collection Blu-ray.

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  6. #023

    Like many of Alfred Hitchcock's British-period films, this production was not released in Italian cinemas; its Italian-dubbed version was not broadcast on television until 1978.

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  7. #024

    It is one of the films that make up spine number 3 of the Criterion Collection.

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  8. #025

    The earliest documented television broadcast of the film was made by WNBT (Channel 1) in New York on December 18, 1944. In Los Angeles, post-World War II television viewers saw the film for the first time on KTSL (Channel 5) on July 2, 1949.

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  9. #026

    The figure seen at the end of the film at Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking, is a striking detail that completes the story's mysterious atmosphere.

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  10. #027

    Alfred Hitchcock insisted that music be used only at the beginning and end of the film to create a realistic effect. Apart from these two points, the only music heard is the song sung by the musician outside the hotel, Miss Froy's melody, the 'Colonel Bogey March' hummed by Gilbert, the dance music he conducts in the hotel room, and the dance tune playing when they meet Iris on the train.

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  11. #028

    The set on which the film was shot was only 90 feet (about 27.4 meters) long, and this narrow space allowed the director to create the illusion of a large space with creative camera angles.

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  12. #029

    The film was shot almost entirely at Islington Studios in London, and all the landscapes the train passes through were created using the rear projection technique.

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  13. #030

    Filming had to stop briefly due to a strike started by the electricians.

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  14. #031

    Charters and Caldicott (Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne) became such beloved characters that the pair came together in ten more films. They reappeared in productions such as Night Train to Munich (1940) and Millions Like Us (1943); the screenplays for these films were also written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. They also appeared in the BBC Radio series "Crook's Tour" and "Secret Mission 609".

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  15. #032

    Leslie Gilliat made test shots of Michael Redgrave with and without a mustache, and years later recalled that while testing an actress for the role of Miss Froy, Alfred Hitchcock told him not to put film in the camera. Hitchcock had already secretly agreed with May Whitty for the role.

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  16. #033

    Michael Redgrave was originally a stage actor and was not very willing to take a role in this film; however, he joined the project through John Gielgud's persuasion.

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  17. #034

    This film is the first production in Michael Redgrave's (Gilbert) film career.

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  18. #035

    Vivien Leigh was given a screen test for the role of Iris Henderson.

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  19. #036

    Michael Redgrave had studied at Cambridge University, just like the character Gilbert he portrayed. Early in his career he had also taken singing lessons as a choir member; this makes Gilbert's line "I have a strong voice" more convincing.

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  20. #037

    Catherine Lacey, who made an unforgettable screen debut in this film, would later again support Margaret Lockwood's leading role in Bad Sister (1947).

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  21. #038

    Nova Pilbeam was mentioned for the role of Iris Henderson.

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  22. #039

    The cricket-loving characters Charters and Caldicott were created specifically for this film; they do not appear in Ethel Lina White's novel.

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  23. #040

    In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Alfred Hitchcock said the film was inspired by the legend of an Englishwoman who disappeared while visiting the Palace Hotel with her daughter during the Great Exhibition in Paris in the 1880s: The woman falls ill, her daughter takes a four-hour journey by horse-drawn carriage to get medicine; when she returns she asks for her mother, but the hotel staff say they do not know such a person. When they go up to the room, they see that everything is different. According to the legend, the woman had caught bubonic plague and her death was concealed, otherwise all of Paris would have fled. Known as the 'Vanishing Hotel Room', this urban legend also inspired films such as the German production Eerie Tales (1919), So Long at the Fair (1950) and Into Thin Air (1955), in which Hitchcock's daughter Patricia appeared.

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  24. #041

    After the success of this film, Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave were to appear together in a number of projects for Gaumont-British-Dominions, including adaptations of 'The Blue Lagoon', 'Rob Roy' and 'A Room with a View'. However, none of these films were made; the pair later came together in The Stars Look Down (1940).

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  25. #042

    Because the original copyright holder did not renew it, the film fell into the public domain; this led to almost anyone being able to duplicate and sell VHS or DVD copies of the film. For this reason, many versions on the market are either heavily (and often badly) edited or are of extremely low quality because they were copied from second- and third-generation copies. As of November 2018, the film is available as a Criterion Collection Blu-ray.

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  26. #043

    Like many films from Alfred Hitchcock's British period, this production was not released in Italian cinemas; its Italian-dubbed version was only broadcast on television in 1978.

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  27. #044

    The earliest documented television broadcast of the film was made by WNBT (Channel 1) in New York on December 18, 1944. In Los Angeles, post-World War II television viewers first saw the film on KTSL (Channel 5) on July 2, 1949.

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  28. #045

    François Truffaut said that among Alfred Hitchcock's works this film was his favourite and the one that best represented his cinema.

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  29. #046

    In the luggage van, while Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) and Iris (Margaret Lockwood) playfully act out the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Gilbert offers Iris a Trichinopoly cigar. This cigar is an important clue in Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet."

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  30. #047

    A guitarist serenading Miss Froy beneath the hotel window is mysteriously strangled by invisible hands. We later learn that the musician is using the notes as a code to pass Miss Froy the details of a secret treaty.

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  31. #048

    The name of the fictional country where most of the story takes place is given in the film. In her first scene, Miss Froy (May Whitty) says, "Bandrika is one of Europe's few undiscovered corners." The first two stations in the film are indicated by signs, and the third through dialogue: Zolnay, Dravka and Morsken.

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  32. #049

    Gilbert once says he used to drive "a miniature locomotive on the Dymchurch line." The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a real miniature railway in the southeast of England and, as of 2026, still carries passengers with steam locomotives along its 21-kilometre line.

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  33. #050

    Although the flustered hotel manager Boris speaks to his staff in the fictional Bandrika language, at the end of the telephone conversation in which he relays Iris's room service order for "champagne," he exclaims a Yiddish phrase, "Oy vey is mir" (woe is me).

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  34. #051

    On the back page of the "International Herald Tribune" that Charters and Caldicott read to check the cricket score, there is a headline referring to Temple's 60-36 victory in the first basketball National Invitation Tournament championship game, played on 16 March 1938.

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  35. #052

    A 'nun' wearing high-heeled shoes was also used as a clue to a deception in the "1921" segment of the 1957 Irish film The Rising of the Moon.

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  36. #053

    It appears on the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list edited by Steven Schneider.

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Behind the Scenes (9)

  1. #054

    At the end of the film, the figure seen at Victoria Station wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette is a striking detail that completes the story's mysterious atmosphere.

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  2. #055

    Alfred Hitchcock insisted that music be used only at the beginning and end of the film to create a realistic effect. Apart from these two points, the only music heard is the song sung by the musician outside the hotel, Mrs. Froy's melody, the 'Colonel Bogey March' that Gilbert hums, the dance music he conducts in the hotel room, and the dance piece playing when he meets Iris on the train.

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  3. #056

    The set on which the film was shot was only 90 feet (about 27.4 meters) long, and this narrow space allowed the director to create the illusion of a large space through creative camera angles.

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  4. #057

    As in the popular European hotels of the period, the hotel manager speaks Italian, French, English and German; he also knows the language of the fictional country where the hotel is located.

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  5. #058

    The film was shot almost entirely at Islington Studios in London, and all of the landscapes the train passes through were created using the rear projection technique.

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  6. #059

    According to assistant director Roy Ward Baker, Alfred Hitchcock was extremely organized at every stage of the shoot and always treated the production crew with respect.

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  7. #060

    Filming had to stop briefly because of a strike started by the electricians.

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  8. #061

    Magnum champagne bottles have a volume of 1.5 liters, equal two standard bottles and can serve about 12 people; moreover, champagne matures better and more slowly in a magnum bottle.

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  9. #062

    The brief shot of the ferry that brings Iris and Gilbert to England across the English Channel also appears as the Irish Sea ferry in Will Hay's Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937).

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Characters & Cast (13)

  1. #063

    To achieve a realistic effect, Alfred Hitchcock insisted that the film use no background music except at the beginning and end; all music between those points is limited to the tune played by the street musician outside the hotel, the musical code passed to Miss Froy, the "Colonel Bogey March" that Michael Redgrave's Gilbert hums, the dance music Gilbert conducts in the hotel room, and the dance music heard when Margaret Lockwood's Iris meets Gilbert on the train.

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  2. #064

    The characters Charters and Caldicott, played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, proved so popular that they reappeared in further productions, including Night Train to Munich (1940), which also starred Margaret Lockwood, and Millions Like Us (1943), both written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. The pair also appeared in the BBC radio series Crook's Tour (1940), which was itself adapted into a film, and in "Secret Mission 609." Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael played the characters in the 1979 remake, and Robin Bailey and Michael Aldridge played them in the 1985 BBC Television mystery mini-series Charters & Caldicott (1985).

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  3. #065

    Vivien Leigh was screen-tested for the role of Iris Henderson.

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  4. #066

    The song that Michael Redgrave's Gilbert hums is the "Colonel Bogey March," composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts under the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford; the piece later became famous through the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

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  5. #067

    Many of this film's themes appear in the thriller Flightplan (2005), starring Jodie Foster; for example, someone disappearing from a moving vehicle, a dizzy woman being the only witness, writing on a window as evidence, and so on.

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  6. #068

    Charters and Caldicott (Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne) became such beloved characters that the pair appeared together in ten more films. They turned up again in productions such as Night Train to Munich (1940) and Millions Like Us (1943), whose screenplays were also written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. They also appeared in the BBC Radio series "Crook's Tour" and "Secret Mission 609".

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  7. #069

    Leslie Gilliat shot screen tests of Michael Redgrave with and without a moustache, and years later recalled that Alfred Hitchcock told him not to put film in the camera while testing an actress for the role of Miss Froy. Hitchcock had already secretly agreed with May Whitty for the part.

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  8. #070

    Michael Redgrave was originally a stage actor and was not very keen to take a role in this film; he joined the project only through John Gielgud's efforts to persuade him.

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  9. #071

    This film is the first production of Michael Redgrave's (Gilbert) screen career.

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  10. #072

    Michael Redgrave had studied at Cambridge University, just like the character Gilbert he played. Early in his career he had also taken singing lessons as a member of a choir, which makes Gilbert's line "I have a strong voice" all the more convincing.

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  11. #073

    With the death of Googie Withers, who played Blanche, in 2011, all the actors named in the film's credits had passed away.

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  12. #074

    Catherine Lacey, who made an unforgettable screen debut in this film, would later again support Margaret Lockwood's leading role, in the film Bad Sister (1947).

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  13. #075

    Nova Pilbeam had been mentioned for the role of Iris Henderson.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #076

    The plot contains clear references to the political situation leading to the Second World War. The English characters, who initially do everything they can to stay out of the conflict, eventually begin working together to fight the foreigners in boots, while the lawyer who wants to negotiate with the aggressors is shot dead even as he waves a white flag.

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Deeper Meaning (15)

  1. #077

    The cricket match Charters (Basil Radford) mentions in the film is the real third Ashes Test played between England and Australia in Manchester in 1938. The result of the match is given correctly at the end of the film in a newspaper headline: "Match abandoned due to rain."

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  2. #078

    François Truffaut said this film was his favorite among Alfred Hitchcock's works and the one that best represents his cinema.

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  3. #079

    In the luggage car, as Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) and Iris (Margaret Lockwood) playfully act out Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Gilbert offers Iris a Trichinopoly cigar. This cigar is an important clue in Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet."

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  4. #080

    A guitarist serenading Miss Froy beneath the hotel window is mysteriously strangled by invisible hands. We later learn that the musician is using the notes as a code to pass secret treaty details to Miss Froy.

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  5. #081

    It is said that Orson Welles watched this film exactly 11 times.

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  6. #082

    The name of the fictional country where most of the story takes place is mentioned in the film. In her first scene, Miss Froy (May Whitty) says, "Bandrika is one of Europe's few undiscovered corners." The first two stations in the film are indicated by signs, and the third through dialogue: Zolnay, Dravka and Morsken.

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  7. #083

    Gilbert once says he used to drive "a miniature locomotive on the Dymchurch line." The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is a real miniature railway in the southeast of England and, as of 2026, still carries passengers with steam locomotives along its 21-kilometer line.

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  8. #084

    The film's plot contains clear references to the political situation on the eve of the Second World War. The English characters, who initially try to stay out of the conflict, ultimately fight together against the booted foreigners, while the lawyer who wants to negotiate with the aggressors is shot as he waves a white flag.

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  9. #085

    The melody Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) hums is the classic "Colonel Bogey March" from the early 20th century. This march later became even more famous through the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

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  10. #086

    Although the exasperated hotel manager Boris speaks to his staff in the fictional Bandrika language, at the end of the telephone conversation in which he relays Iris's room service order for "champagne," he cries out a Yiddish expression: "Oy vey is mir" (woe is me).

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  11. #087

    Many themes of this film also appear in the Jodie Foster thriller Flightplan (2005): someone disappearing from a moving vehicle, the only witness being a dazed woman, writing on glass as evidence, and so on.

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  12. #088

    On the back page of the "International Herald Tribune" that Charters and Caldicott read to check the cricket score, there is a headline referring to Temple's 60-36 victory in the first basketball National Invitation Tournament championship game, played on March 16, 1938.

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  13. #089

    A 'nun' wearing high heels was also used as a decoy clue in the "1921" segment of the 1957 Irish film The Rising of the Moon.

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  14. #090

    It appears on the list "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.

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  15. #091

    In 1985, Joan Collins also played a secret agent disguised as a nun in an episode of the series Dynasty (1981), and the events again took place in a fictional European country.

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