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Lea 2021-12-21 08:01:14
"The Missing Lady, a movie that I looked down on at the time"
"The Missing Lady" is adapted from Ethel Lina White's 1936 novel "The Spinning Wheel". White is good at writing crime stories, and the protagonists are traveling young women-Miss Henderson in "The Missing Lady" is the standard model. The reason why Hitchcock has a soft spot for White’s novel is...
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Theron 2021-12-21 08:01:14
Justice and refined egoism
Everyone on the train is lying to justice for their own benefit.
Little do they know that a tiny lie will change the logical relationship of the whole thing like a butterfly effect.
Hitchcock is really a wonderful director who can write suspense stories! Everyone on the train is silently causing evil...
Emile Boreo
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'Mrs.' Todhunter: ln that first careless rapture of yours you said you didn't care what happens.
Mr. Todhunter: My dear, you must think of it from my point of view. The law, like Caesar's wife, must be above all suspicion.
'Mrs.' Todhunter: Even when the law spends six weeks with Caesar's wife?
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Caldicott: People just don't vanish and so forth.
Charters: She has.
Caldicott: What?
Charters: Vanished.
Caldicott: Who?
Charters: The old dame.
Caldicott: Yes.
Charters: Well?
Caldicott: Well, how could she?
Charters: What?
Caldicott: Well, vanish.
Charters: I don't know.
Caldicott: That just explains my point. People don't just disappear into thin air.
