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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. :-)

Date: 2015-10-25 08:21 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2015-10-26 05:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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!)

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