Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes

Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes (2007)

November 20th, 20070h 34min

Documentary
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Overview

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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