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The Lady Vanishes
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #310
- IMDb #757
- Rotten Tomatoes #270
- Metacritic #74
- Letterboxd #792
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #130
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #803
- Metacritic Critics #24
- Metacritic Audience #548
- Criticker #302
- Kinopoisk #939
- AlloCiné #497
- Trakt #1398
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 68, highest is Metacritic critics on 98. Critics average 98, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →On a train journey through Europe, a young Englishwoman befriends a kindly older woman. When her companion suddenly disappears during the trip, the other passengers inexplicably deny ever having seen her. The young woman, with the help of a skeptical musicologist, must investigate the mystery herself, uncovering a dangerous conspiracy that threatens them all aboard the moving train.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writers
- Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
- Studio
- Gainsborough Pictures
- Released
- 7 October 1938
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English, German, French, Italian
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 1 ceremony
| New York Film Critics Circle 1939 | Best Director | Alfred Hitchcock | Winner |
| New York Film Critics Circle 1939 | Best Film | Nominee |
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