Dundee Courier (07/Feb/1939) - British 'Thin Man' at The King's

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• article: British 'Thin Man' at The King's
• newspaper: Dundee Courier (07/Feb/1939)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Dame May Whitty, Linden Travers, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, New York City, New York, Robert Donat, The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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British 'Thin Man' at The King's

BRITISH "THIN MAN" AT THE KING'S

With "The Lady Vanishes" Alfred Hitchcock won the New York critics' award for the best directed film of 1938.

Keeping in mind the great films which came out of Hollywood last year, that was some achievement. But the picture, at the King's, Dundee, this week, is outstanding for thrills, plot, and acting as well as the direction.

Margaret Lockwood is co-starred with a now leading man, Michael Redgrave, who does a grand bit of work in the same easy flippant style of Robert Donat.

Practically the whole action takes place in a Continental train, where a lady vanishes under mysterious circumstances. You don't get the low-down until practically the last foot of film.

Dame May Whitty has a fine part as a governess who is not all she seems, and Linden Travers and Naunton Wayne keep the humour sparkling as a couple of English tourists.

"The Lady Vanishes" is as slick as anything that has come across "the pond" — a British prototype of "The Thin Man."