'The Lady Vanishes' MASTERPIECE MYSTERY Sundays@ 9/8C on PBS - Blu-ray Forum

hagios · 08-17-2013, 12:01 AM

SUNDAY
Aug
18

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The beautiful young British socialite Iris Carr, piqued at her society friends' raucous behavior, abandons them on their Balkan holiday, trading their company for a mix of tranquility and isolation. But when she begins her solo trip home overwhelmed by the heat and passing out at the railway station, Iris awakens hazy and unnerved as she's rushed onto the train.

Comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, whose tweed suit and bookish looks hide a surprisingly jovial and adventurous spirit, Iris falls asleep. Yet when she awakens, Miss Froy has vanished…and her fellow passengers deny that she ever existed. With only the support of the handsome English traveler Max Hare, Iris must struggle against doubt and danger as she tries to convince her fellow passengers – both kind and sinister – of Miss Froy's existence…and her own sanity.

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The Lady Vanishes packs in the suspense and style when Iris Carr, a beautiful young socialite traveling alone, befriends a kindly English middle-aged woman but wakes from a nap to find her missing – and all the strangers surrounding her denying that the woman was ever there at all! This closed-door mystery classic investigates the question of madness and isolation set among increasingly sinister passengers and a train barreling through Europe toward a dangerous and dizzying final destination: the truth.

With a nod to Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 adaptation and a return to the book that started it all (Ethel White's The Wheel Spins), The Lady Vanishes stars Tuppence Middleton (Inspector Lewis, "Down Among the Fearful"), Tom Hughes (Page Eight), Keeley Hawes (Upstairs Downstairs), Gemma Jones (The Duchess of Duke Street), and Alex Jennings (Cranford).

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