Branchage Festival, 25-28th September 2008, Jersey.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1938
Duration: 97 min
Country: UK

GREAT BRITISH DIRECTORS

Powell and Pressburger, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock go head to head in our retrospective screenings in association with the Jersey Film Society and the Jersey Evening Post...

We hand-picked two classic films from each of these filmmaking giants, and we left it up to you the audience to vote for the films you want to see. The results are in and the winning films have been chosen...

THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)

Hitchcock saw the cinematic potential of train travel in a very different way from David Lean, from North by Northwest to Strangers on a Train, he loved putting his characters in enclosed spaces hurtling through the countryside and watching the chaos unfold. THE LADY VANISHES is perhaps the ultimate train mystery, as a rich young playgirl played by the wonderful Margaret Lockwood realises that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train...and all is not what is seems...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899 – 1980)

Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone in East London. After an early career in photography and title-card design at various London film studios, he got his first chance to direct at Gainsborough Studios in 1925. From then on he directed numerous features which straddled both the silent and talkie eras before finally moving to Hollywood in 1939.

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