Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Into Thin Air
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Introduction
"Into Thin Air" (also known as "The Vanishing Lady") was originally broadcast on 30/Oct/1955 as part of the first season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Diane Winthrop comes to the 1899 Paris World's Exposition and checks into a hotel with her mother. Her mother becomes seriously ill. A hotel doctor asks Diane to go out for medicine. When she returns, her mother has vanished into thin air. No one remembers either Diane or her mother. Even the appearance of the hotel room has changed. Diane begins to fear that she is going insane. Fortunately, she is able to solve the mystery. Her mother died of bubonic plauge. Fearing a public panic in tourist filled Paris, everyone in the hotel conspired to make it look as if her mother had never existed. (TV.com)
DVD Releases
The following official DVD releases contain this episode:
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One - Universal (UK, 2005) |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One - Universal (USA, 2005) |
Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Written by:
Starring:
- Patricia Hitchcock - cast: Diana Winthrop
- Geoffrey Toone - cast: Basil Farnham
- Alan Napier - cast: Sir Everett
- Maurice Marsac - cast: Clerk
- Mary Forbes - cast: Mrs. Winthrop
- Ann Codee - cast: Doctor's Wife
- Gerry Gaylor - cast: Maid
- John Mylong - cast: Doctor
- Albert D'Arno - cast: Bellhop
- Peter Camlin - cast: Porter
- Jack Chefe - cast: Detective
- Michael Hadlow - cast: Maris
Radio Adapations
- Cabin B-13 (Suspense, 09/Nov/1943)
- The Vanishing Lady (Escape, 01/Feb/1948)
- The Vanishing Lady (Suspense, 07/Apr/1957)