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Contents 1 The Lady Vanishes (1938) 1.1 Product Links 1.2 Page Status 1.3 DVD Contents - Overview 1.4 DVD Information 1.5 DVD Contents - Detailed Information 1.6 Booklet/Insert 1.7 Comments and Notes 1.8 Reviews 1.9 Relevant Message Board Topics 1.10 Images

[edit] The Lady Vanishes (1938)

[edit] Product Links

• Amazon (USA)

[edit] Page Status

the details of this release are confirmed as accurate

[edit] DVD Contents - Overview

• The Lady Vanishes (1938) with feature length commentary track
• Crook's Tour (1941) - directed by John Baxter
• 33 minute video essay about The Lady Vanishes

[edit] DVD Information

• released by Criterion Collection in 2007 (USA)
• region encoding: region 1
• format: 2 discs (DVD9) in clear Scanavo case
• release date: 20/Nov/2007
• UPC/EAN: 715515026727
• ISBN-13: 9781604650006
• catalogue: CC1663D
• main transfer: NTSC black & white
• database ID: 2726

[edit] DVD Contents - Detailed Information

• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  • length: 96 minutes (01:36:15)
  • audio: English mono (DD1.0)
  • subtitles: English
  • ratio: 1.33:1 (windowboxed)
  • bitrate: 9.11 mb/sec

• Feature length commentary track
  • by film historian Bruce Eder
  • audio: English mono (DD1.0)
  • subtitles: none

• Crook's Tour - "a 1941 feature-length Charters and Caldicott adventure, available for the first time on home video"
  • length: 81 minutes (01:20:54)
  • audio: English mono (DD1.0)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1 (windowboxed)
  • bitrate: 7.83 mb/sec

• Mystery Train - "a new video essay about Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes by scholar Leonard Leff"
  • length: 33 minutes (00:33:29)
  • audio: English mono (DD1.0)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 7.35 mb/sec

• Hitchcock/Truffaut - "excerpts from the Francois Truffaut interviews"
  • length: 10 minutes
  • audio: English mono (DD1.0)
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1

• Stills Gallery - "behind the scenes photos and promotional art (22 images)"
• ratio: 1.33:1

[edit] Booklet/Insert

• 24 pages, with photographs, essays, chapter list, and film transfer details.

[edit] Comments and Notes

• This transfer includes the missing segment from the previous Criterion release from 1998.
• Unlike the previous release, this transfer is windowboxed.
• The commentary track contains several new overdubs from Bruce Eder (see Criterion Forum for further details).

[edit] Reviews

• DVD Beaver
• DVD Times - reviewed by Mike Sutton

[edit] Relevant Message Board Topics

• Criterion Lady Vanishes now OOP

[edit] Images

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DVD 1

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DVD 2 main menu

DVD 2 - Hitchcock/Truffaut menu

DVD 2 - Hitchcock/Truffaut sample

DVD 2 - Mystery Train menu

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DVD 2 - Stills Gallery menu

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DVD 2 - Crook's Tour menu

DVD 2 - Crook's Tour chapter menu

DVD 2 - Crook's Tour info

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