WPL Film Club Features The Lady Vanishes – and a Great Sense of Humor – April 25
Okay, if I ever get a budget, the very first thing I am going to do is hire Doc Crane of the Weston Public Library to be the Film Critic. His film summaries, the series titles (this is from the Travels and Travails series) and especially the last lines including film disclaimers are the very best. “Far too much fretting over cricket” just made me laugh and laugh. I wonder what the Weston Cricket Club thinks of that. Perhaps they like the fretting. “Continental malfeasance”? And what is the difference between “British adultery” and regular old “adultery”? LOL. I sort of want Doc Crane to become Weston’s film review critic even of modern films…wonder what Civil War would come out with? Wrong answers only.
Doc, if you are ever interested in an unpaid gig here at the Owl, please send me a note.
Here’s the write-up on the Weston Public Library site.
The Lady Vanishes
1938, 96 minutes
In this early rom/com thriller starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave, an elderly English governess disappears on a train trip across a fascist country. The authorities insist there was no such woman on board, leaving it to the British passengers to sort out the mystery––encountering menace in every direction. Released during the Munich Crisis, The Lady Vanishes is one of Hitchcock’s pre-war allegories about a muddled Britain waking up to the growing threat coming out of Middle Europe.
Please Note–This film is RATED PG with smoking, drinking, foul play, Continental malfeasance, British stiff upper-lips, British adultery, and far too much fretting over cricket.