Hello all! Lisa from Boondock Ramblings and I love to buddy watch movies together – even though I am in Michigan and she is in Pennsylvania! We don’t literally watch together in a watch party, although that might be fun one time! We wanted our fall list to feel fall cozy, move into some more chilling movies, than turn cozy again for November.

This week we watched a suspense movie by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes. I love anything that has to do with old timey train travel and that this movie was set mostly on a train made this a cozy watch for me, despite the craziness that was happening aboard the train!

It has been a very long two weeks here, and last night when Billy got stuck at work super late and Wyatt finally got settled for bed, I made my cup of tea and settled down myself. Except, Wyatt didn’t settle down like I thought. Instead he decided he was going to rally and ended up chattering away next to me during the first 20 minutes of the movie. Then Billy came home and that set more hubbub into effect. Eventually though, we did all settle down and finish watching the movie, even though the beginning of the movie is a bit murky to me.

The movie’s heroine is Iris, portrayed by the lovely Margaret Lockwood. After an evening spent in a local hotel while waiting for the rail tracks to be cleared, Iris boards the train that will take her back to London and her fiance. When she tries to help fellow passenger Miss Froy, an elderly English woman and governess, find Miss Froy’s glasses, Iris is whacked on the head by a falling planter. Miss Froy helps her onto the train, where they share a compartment with a mix of other passengers, including a woman whose hair was definitely full of secrets…

Anyway, Iris takes a little nap and when she wakes up, Miss Froy is gone. Iris is concerned when she can’t find Miss Froy, and then even more concerned that no one else even seems to remember her being on the train except for her. She basically runs around for a while asking if anyone has seen her and everyone is sort of like, no, it must be that bonk on your head that made you imagine things. Everyone had their own reasons for saying no, even if they did remember her, such as the man and his mistress who didn’t want a scandal (Mr. and “Mrs” Todhunter) and two men, Charters and Caldicott, who were determined to make a cricket match and didn’t want the train to be delayed any further. But others had their own, more nefarious, reasons.

Back to poor Iris, running around looking like a lunatic, disturbing the people on the train constantly to ask about Miss Froy and demand that the train be stopped and searched. Another passenger, Gilbert, helps her in her search thank goodness, although he too seems to be of the mind that she is just suffering from “concussion related hallucinations” as a doctor on board the train has stated. Dr. Hartz is actually on board with a nun accompanying him and his patient, whose head is completed swathed in bandages.

Iris had stated earlier that Miss Froy was on board the train, she even gave the staff a package of special tea to drink, and when Gilbert sees the wrapper blow up against the train window after the chef just throws the trash right out the window of the moving train (whatttt?) he realizes that Iris is not crazy, and that Miss Froy really did go missing. So the search continues in earnest, eventually leading Iris and Gilbert to find a cute little calf in a basket and then in the same room, some magician’s equipment, and then finally, a clue! However, they end up in a scuffle with the magician who takes back the clue, which were Miss Froy’s spectacles.

Gilbert and Iris don’t give up, even barging into the room of the patient covered in bandages after Iris notices the nun is wearing high heels, which Iris found to be super sus. They start to try to dislodge the bandages and insist that the patient is really Miss Froy. When the doctor comes in and is like what in tarnation is going on here, they insist that the patient be checked to see if it is really Miss Froy.

And….I will stop my little summary here because the rest of this movie really needs to be seen, and I don’t want to ruin the rest!

This movie was a fast moving, crazy, wild ride. Seriously. I loved it. It was the distraction I needed from all the things happening. I thought it had an over the top feel, and I appreciated that as well.

This movie is total entertainment from start to finish, and I highly recommend watching it! If you do, and want to share your opinions on it, our linky will be open until next Wednesday at midnight!

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And that’s a wrap from me this week! Short but sweet!

Be sure to check out Lisa’s amazing post over on Boondock Ramblings!

Next up: Strangers on a Train! Watch along with us if you want!