Alfred Hitchcock · 1938 · rail

Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 comedy thriller. On a train out of a small European country, a young Englishwoman falls asleep beside a chatty old governess and wakes to find the woman gone and every passenger insisting she was never there. The other English travellers would rather not get involved, because getting involved might delay them getting home.

1. 1
   Bandrika

   Snowbound in a hotel in a small central European country, a crowd of stranded travellers wait for the line to be cleared - and Iris Henderson, going home to be married, is struck on the head by a falling flowerpot as she boards.

2. 2
   The frontier

   On the train Miss Froy, an elderly English governess, shares tea and then simply ceases to exist - the compartment full of strangers, the dining car with no record, and everyone certain Iris imagined her.

3. 3
   London

   With a brain specialist, a magician's cabinet, a shoot-out on a siding and two cricket enthusiasts who finally get involved, the train runs for the border - and what Miss Froy carries in her head reaches Whitehall.