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(1930s) The Lady Vanishes
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Movies
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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The Lady Vanishes
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<p>(November 21, 1938)
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<p> The Lady Vanishes exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock,
England's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form.
The ingredients of Hitchcock pictures rarely vary much. They
include a beautiful English girl, a somewhat bewildered hero,
several international spies, a code and a journey, preferably
by train.
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<p> That the elements of a Hitchcock melodrama provoke an
excitement utterly lacking when the same elements are combined
by less skillful directors is due to Director Hitchcock's unique
talent for cinematic story construction and his cinematic story
construction and his unparalleled diligence in employing it.
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<p> More popular in England than in the U.S., Hitchcock pictures
like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built
and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy
melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival
engagements in Manhattan and London.</p>
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