Some Tweets about The Lady Vanishes (1938)
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26 August
Some Tweets about The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Sally Stewart, Margaret Lockwood, Alfred Hitchcock, and Googie Withers
From Hitchcock on Hitchcock :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 26, 2018
'If you imply "it can't happen here"—if you set your story in Central Europe or even make your villain a foreigner—officialdom raises no objections. But if your picture is too obviously a criticism of the social system, Whitehall shakes its head.'
This interview also tells of shipping companies' objections to a film 'based on the disaster of the Titanic' ; the Home Office to wanting to 'put the Sydney Street siege on the screen for The Man Who Knew Too Much' ; and the @BBFC to a film on The General Strike... pic.twitter.com/0vEwV5F7hc— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 26, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock and Margaret Lockwood
To-night, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes*, with the same mission-driven intrigue and edginess as The 39 Steps (1935), and with secret material encoded by Mr. Memory (on stage in Steps) and Miss Froy (in a musical theme in Lady)...— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 24, 2018
* From 1938, not the version from 1979 (or 2013)) pic.twitter.com/WbJ2qsmjxg
From quiet beginnings, where we spot model-scenery before entering the hostelry's linguistic melting-pot (an inspiration for Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest ?), we're swiftly confined to a train that no one could have left (four years after Christie's Murder on the Orient Express). pic.twitter.com/CFeg6LBL7v— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 24, 2018
From the interviews that François Truffaut boldly asked for, and Alfred Hitchcock graciously granted (to both men's credit*), one can click here to listen to Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 7 : ‘Young and Innocent’, 1937, ‘The Lady Vanishes’, 1938 and ‘Vertigo’.
End-notes :
* A story told in Hitchock / Truffaut (2015) :
Also, don't fail to listen to what Martin Scorsese says so insightfully about the film [and Psycho (1960)] / the rarity of people seeing it on first release in Kent Jones' Hitchcock / Truffaut (2015) :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 10, 2018
The 'stand-out' contribution to Jones' film (and to the DVD Extras) ! :) https://t.co/kluaewBPLs
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
