The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes poster for sale.

Featured here is a rare surviving original Alfred Hitchcock movie poster of the classic thriller, The Lady Vanishes (1938).

This is an actual surviving poster of The Lady Vanishes, which was released in India by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC).

The Lady Vanishes is one of the best British thrillers ever made by the most influential filmmaker of all time, Alfred Hitchcock, making this poster highly collectible.

Printed and circulated in India (somewhere in the 1970s) during the film’s release in India, this Alfred Hitchcock poster was originally intended for publicity but never ended up being used.

This expertly hand drawn poster features a brilliant semi-transparent silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock, with impressions of the train, a police wagon as well as two key characters from the film appearing inside. This Alfred Hitchcock poster features the word Hitchcock predominantly on the left.

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 hit British comic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film is based on the 1936 novel, “The Wheel Spins” by Ethel Lina White.

As the title suggests, the film is about an English tourist who discovers that her elderly traveling companion seems to have disappeared from the train they are traveling on.

The Lady Vanishes is Hitchcock’s penultimate film made in the United Kingdom before his move to the United States. The film remains one of Hitchcock’s best known British films. A remake of the film, also titled The Lady Vanishes, was made in 1979.

The Lady Vanishes was named Best Picture of 1938 by the The New York Times. In 1939, Hitchcock received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director for The Lady Vanishes.