“The Lady Vanishes is perhaps the best of all of Hitchcock's films - a capital sample of his highly individual style. He has exploited to the full his particular sense of the sinister and the bizarre, and built up the tension by a masterly use of detail.... Almost all the action takes place upon a transcontinental train, and we are introduced to a typically Hitchcock carriage-full; among them a pince-nezed Baroness, horrifyingly immobile, an Italian illusionist, much too genial and expansive, and Miss Floy, a little middle-aged governess, all tweeds, whimsy and good sense. When the English girl dozes off and wakes up to find the governess vanished, the rest of the carriage quietly denies that she was ever there....”