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To me, this movie is perfection.

How sad is this?

Good movie but grossly overrated

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This BBC remake of The Lady Vanishes reverts to the source novel, The Wheel Spins rather than the Hitchcock film from 1938.Iris Carr (Tuppence Middleton) is a self centred young socialite in the Balkans of the 1930s. Returning back to England by train she strikes up a conversation with an English governess Miss Froy and later alarmed by the mysterious disappearance of her. However no one else in the train remembers seeing Miss Froy, Iris thinks that some of the passengers may have a motive to lie.Luckily for her a handsome Englishman, Max Hare (Tom Hughes) comes to her aid and also lend some romance.The film was trailed as a dashing mystery adventure with romance. It actually came across as rather dull and creaky. The reason being the book it was based on probably is not that good hence why the Hitchcock film added certain plot elements and the comedic characters Charters and Caldicott.This film is actually rather flat, hampered by the lack of suspense and mystery.

The only reason I sat through this dreadful remake was because I am suffering from a persistent chest cold which prevents me from going out on Saturday night which is when I saw this televised version of the famous Hitchcock 1939 definitive film.I constantly was making mental comparisons with the latter.Oh how I missed the carefully crafted characters and humour that Hitchcock directed especially Charters & Caldicott.Instead we had two very boring women with whom I didn't care a fig.Even Hitchcock's Mr & Mrs "Todhunter" were 10 times more interesting than the characters in this 2013 telefilm.I agree with all the negative comments said above by other IMDb.com users.I suppose the actors felt lucky just being in this travesty considering most are out of work at any one time.This version was slow, tedious and lacked suspense & I don't care if the plot followed nearer the original author's novel.I didn't recognise most of the actors in the leading roles.

Hitchcock's movie is wildly over-rated and people are far too snowed by the mumbling, bumbling cricket fans, Michael Redgrave's charm and Lockwood's beauty-in-distress.The new version may not be perfect but it is most definitely not a remake of the 1938 movies, it's an adaptation of the book and far closer to the novel The Wheel Spins. Does it wrap up too quickly? Well, so does the book, unfortunately.Hitchcock added way too much farce and a silly gun battle that veer so far from the nature of the novel as to be almost unbelievable.Despite the ending, I recommend The Wheel Spins unreservedly. Its a dark psychological study of a mind almost sinking into madness. The author does a wonderful job of writing about a socialite who is drawn into a mystery way beyond any trouble she's ever had to deal with, one that makes her for the first time in her life feel alone and helpless.

I probably made a mistake in coming to this most recent remake of "The Lady Vanishes" just days after watching Hitchcock's definitive 1939 version. There's just no comparison. Hitch's version was fast moving, exciting, suspenseful, funny and sexy while this version was by contrast, turgid, dull, predictable, humourless and staid.The central character of Iris garners no interest from the viewer right from the start and quite why she's made to fall down a steep hill after witnessing a scene between the illicit lovers "Mr & Mrs Todmorton" is anyone's guess. Anyway, back at the hotel she throws a strop and decides to let her so called friends return to England before her, although within a day she's hey-presto on the next train herself, free spirit that she is. There she bumps into a friendly middle-aged woman who befriends her in the face of foreign frostiness, before the latter makes like the title and precipitates her attempts to find her and save her from a dastardly fate.Only thing is you get no sense of connection between Iris and Miss Froy, in fact the latter witters on so much that if she sat next to me on a train I'd welcome any chance I got to escape her attentions. Moreover there's no mystery at all, the Hitchcock reveal of Miss Froy's writing her name in the condensation of the train window substituted for an English newspaper discarded in her compartment. There's no mysterious nun to alert suspicion, the romance between Iris and the professor's young assistant appears out of thin air while the rescue conclusion is wholly devoid of thrills.I didn't feel the cast did much to lift an already stodgy production either, but the starriest players ever couldn't have made this dead duck fly. In trying, I presume to distance itself from being a slavish copy of the famous original it seemed to completely forget it was meant to be a romantic comedy-thriller.Now excuse me while I try to forget I ever saw this whole dreary programme...