Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes

Name: Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-11-20
Duration: 34 min
Rating: 6.0
Cast: Leonard Leff

200734m

★ 6.0

Documentary

This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political underpinnings and the details and techniques that undeniably make it a 'Hitchcock picture.'

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Cast

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Leonard Leff

Self - Film Scholar / Narrator (voice)

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