Another early, pre-America Hitchcock film, this one set aboard a train (how I love these one-setting dramas!), is the 18th film I've seen that Hitchcock directed. This particular one centers around a lady (Dame May Whitty, who I love, having seen her in movies like Mrs. Miniver and Gaslight) who vanishes (surprise!), but there is a giant conspiracy among the train passengers, who all claim that she was never aboard. The only person who is sure that she was aboard was a young woman (Margaret Lockwood) that she befriended before boarding the train. (Did anyone see Flightplan? It's kind of like that, except as I recall, very few people had actually seen Jodie Foster's child.)
A young man (Michael Redgrave, yes those Redgraves) who had fought with the young woman prior to boarding (conflict!! Whoooo!) believes her because she's pretty, and the two of them embark on their own detective case to find the missing woman. Unsurprisingly, she is found (spoiler alert?) and the ending is silly, but there is some pretty good suspense built up along the way, and you'll find yourself genuinely pleased at the path of the film, as well as the relationship between the two main characters, which is actually very well done.
Score: 8/10
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