The Lady Vanishes

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I watched this the other day (Elliot Gould/Cybil Shepherd version) and was pleasantly surprised to see Arthur LOwe as a co-star. Set just prior to WWII this would have been Mainwaring getting ready to face the hun! Arthur played the role almost like Mainwaring even adding a few "Now look here's" into the mix. I'm sure that his characters struggle with the 24 hour clock was more than anod to the beloved captain too.

Great film, if only for Arthur Lowe.

Dave Homewood

I watched it last week again on my DVD. It is a great film indeed, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Well made, well acted, and some great moments. Arthur Lowe was excellent in the role too. I am usually annoyed by Elliot Gould and Cybil Shepherd but they were really good in this film, the whole cast was.

The original Hitchcock version made in the 1930's was good too, I haven't seen it for years though. They spun off a series based around the cahracters that Lowe and Ian Carmichael called 'Charters and Caldicott' in the 1980's with Robin Bailey and Michael Aldridge in the roles. That was good too, the two old cricket obsessed buffers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134240/

I highly recommend The Lady Vanishes remake.

Bramleyman

I have a film of this, but I do believe it is with Dame Margaret Rutherford in. Whether Arthur Lowe is in it, or any other D/A cast member, I honestly can't recall.

Dave Homewood

Did you mean Dame May Whitty? She was in the origiginal 1938 film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/

Note that Basil Radford and Naughton Wayne played Charters and Caldicott. They went on to appear in a number of other films as the characters, a sort of spin-off series of bit-parts, which I would love to see again - I saw all these old ones a kid when they played them on Sunday afternoons on TVNZ:

Night Train to Munich (1940)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032842/

Crook's Tour (1941)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031192/

Millions Like Us (1943)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036160/

I wonder if all four films with them in will ever be released as a set? What a pity Arthur and Ian didn't get a spin-off series too.