History Film / TheLadyVanishes

* DrinkOrder: Miss Froy doesn't like regular tea and brings a package of Harriman's Herbal Tea ("A million Mexicans drink it") on the train with her. The box becomes a ChekhovsGun.

* BreakTheHaughty: Iris goes through a fairly light example of this. She's closer to SpoiledSweet than RichBitch, but still seems to have trouble coping with life outside her privileged bubble. The head blow, the disappearance of Miss Froy and her BelligerentSexualTension with Gilbert finally cure her of that.

** TruerToTheText: The lack of screwball elements, and the explanation for the disappearance, in the 2013 version are closer to the 1936 novel that inspired the films, ''The Wheel Spins'' by Ethel Lena White.

* BritishStuffiness: Caldicott and Charters exist mainly as a comical demonstration of this. Charters barely even reacts when he ''gets shot''.

All right, there ''is'' foul play. But there's also a ScrewballComedy relationship between Iris and Gilbert. And two hilariously over-the-top Englishmen obsessed with cricket. This is probably one of Hitchcock's nicer films -- think ''Film/{{The 39 Steps|1935}}''.

* AmericansHateTingle: [[invoked]] Caldicott and Charters are disappointed to find no cricket scores in a copy of the ''New York Herald-Tribune'', just baseball.[[note]]There's also a headline on the back page about the inaugural 1938 edition of [[UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}} National Invitation Tournament]], noting correctly that Temple University defeated the University of Colorado 60-36 in the final[[/note]]

* OhCrap: An amusing example from Iris when she realizes that the random guy she asks to help her on the train is Gilbert, who'd playfully tormented her in her hotel room the night before.

* LetsGetDangerous: Caldicott and Charters spend most of the film being ''beyond'' useless. Then when they're finally convinced that the train is under siege by Nazis, they both grab guns and start putting up one hell of a defense.

* StageMagician: The Great Doppo, who sits in the same train compartment, is one, but he turns out to be part of the conspiracy as well.

* StageMagician: The Great Doppo, who sits next to Iris on the train, is one, but he turns out to be part of the conspiracy as well.

* StageMagician: Signor Doppo, who sits next to Iris on the train, is one, but he turns out to be part of the conspiracy as well.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Caldicott and Charters. Which became ThoseTwoActors for Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne. Not only did they reprise their roles two years later in Carol Reed's ''Film/NightTrainToMunich'', but they appeared together (as differently-named but virtually identical characters) in numerous other film and radio productions from 1940 until Radford's death in 1952.

The film was remade in 1979, with Creator/AngelaLansbury in the title role, and a TV movie version aired on Creator/TheBBC in 2013. Unofficially, the Creator/JodieFoster film ''Film/{{Flightplan}}'' bears quite a few similarities.

* ChekhovsGun: The tune the guitarist is playing is the code that Froy was [[BringNewsBack bringing home]].

The film was remade in 1979, with Creator/AngelaLansbury in the title role, and a TV movie version aired on the BBC in 2013. Unofficially, the Creator/JodieFoster film ''Film/{{Flightplan}}'' bears quite a few similarities.

** Another one was made in 2012 and broadcast by the BBC in 2013.

A 1938 film starring Creator/MargaretLockwood and Creator/MichaelRedgrave, ''The Lady Vanishes'' is one of the last films directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock before he left his native Britain and went off to Hollywood.

* HeelFaceTurn: The nun who worked with Dr. Hartz. Apparently she's okay with all of the other things the Nazis have her do, but murdering a nice old lady (who happens to be a British spy) is [[EvenEvilHasStandards going too far]].

* ShoutOut: To Franchise/SherlockHolmes. When Gilbert tells Iris his theory about the disappearance he puts on a deerstalker hat and picks up a pipe. He even refers to Iris as "Watson."

A 1938 film starring Margaret Lockwood and Creator/MichaelRedgrave, ''The Lady Vanishes'' is one of the last films directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock before he left his native Britain and went off to Hollywood.

* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Gilbert]] practically sweeps [[spoiler: Iris]] into his arms for their FirstKiss in the cab when it becomes evident to both of them that [[spoiler: Iris]] has thought the better of marrying her [[UpperClassTwit titled but idiotic-looking]] fiancé.