The Lady Vanishes to spare

[thisbluespirit]

My Margaret Lockwood boxset arrived the other day, so now I have two copies of The Lady Vanishes! And while I may be the hoarding type, I definitely don't need two DVDs of the same thing, so I'm offering to pass it on to someone who may want it.

One note is that it was evidently an early and basic DVD release and the film print was pretty much unrestored. It's watchable - I watched it and enjoyed it - but it's flickery and not cleaned up and the boxset version is just so much better (but you can't have that one, it's mine, sorry).

That said, if you're in the UK and would like it, it's an excellent and enjoyable old film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that is basically 1930s screwball comedy meets pre-WWII international spy thriller on a train. What's not to like?

So, if you'd like it, raise your hand in the comments. :-)

Comments

[glinda]

Being that I enjoy both screwball comedies and early 20th century spy thrillers The Lady Vanishes seems rather my sort of thing! If you haven't already found it a home then... *raises hand*

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, I am sorry! Someone bagged it on the LJ side. In consolation, it was a crappy print. You can find a better one somewhere, I'm sure.

Being that I enjoy both screwball comedies and early 20th century spy thrillers The Lady Vanishes seems rather my sort of thing

*nods*

[glinda]

Ha, no bother, I shall look out for it on my travels in that case.


(I'm trying to not buy DVDs at the moment as I have a bit of a backlog that I could do with working my way through first, but if someone has something going spare that totally doesn't count... :D)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, no, that sort of thing totally doesn't count! (there's a special kind of logic for it.)

[glinda]

*nods seriously* It's a little known fact, but its true! :D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I would not say no! :)

But if someone else wants it, give them first dibs.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, cool! And okay, will do if someone else does want - after all, if we can net in anybody else to the love while we're at it... *ahahahahaha* (My best evil chuckle, btw.)

However, if no one else pipes up before the end of the day, it will most certainly be winging its way to you - I'll let you know. (I can only apologise in advance for the poor film print it seems to have been taken from!)

♥

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah we need to reel in others to enjoy the sheer splendiferousness of 'The Lady Vanishes'.

(Seriously Spook's friends - WATCH IT!)

[thisbluespirit]

It's yours! I'll post it... some time before the end of the year! ;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oooh thanks!

Also, no rush - I did just watch it after all. (And I was annoyed as hell that the library made me drag home a 5 DVD boxset of TEN Hitchcock movies for the sake of just the one I wanted to watch. That's no damn joke when every pound I carry hurts my knee. The catalogue listed the movie singly, but the only copy the librarian could find was part of this "Best of British Hitchcock" (or some such) boxset.)

Also also, I'm currently proofreading my way through 3 SF novels for my friend Juliet before they're finally released as ebooks (their publication having pre-dated Kindle by a few years!) so I'm not watching anything except my regular shows right now.

[thisbluespirit]

(It isn't posted yet.) :-D

How very inconvenient of them! Maybe they were just overly-keen enablers who wanted to get you into Hitchcock? ("Give her the lot," the said, "once she's had one, she'll be hooked. Ahahahaha.") Or more probably not.

Oh, gosh, that does sound like a task to be going on with! I hope it's going well.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Okay.

*snorts* No, it was more that they refused to split up the boxset. Can't see why, but whatever!

It's going very well - I'm down to the last 80 pages of the final book. If I can get it finished tomorrow (which I think likely) I'll have proofed around 532k words in 8 days. (These being epic fantasy novels!)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Arrrghhh...if only I was in the UK!!

[sevanatwonights.livejournal.com]

I finally broke down and watched The Lady Vanishes (1938) and found it to be much better than the newer version. I don't live in the UK but whoever gets it is in for a good flick.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, hurrah! It is a great little film, isn't it? :-)