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  • The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    Review preview for The Lady Vanishes

    Despite having all the elements of a classic Hitchcock mystery, this is really one for fans of the master's early, funny films.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Young Iris is horrified when the woman she has been talking to on a train disappears and no-one seems to remember her.
  • There Goes The Bride (1932)
    Review preview for There Goes The Bride

    Matthews steals this bright little comedy.

    Caro Ness · 3 out of 5
    A bride-to-be flees her wedding... and finds herself suspected of being a thief.
  • Whisky Galore! (1949)
    Review preview for Whisky Galore!

    Commentators have dismissed Mackendrick's comedy about the islanders of Todday as stereotypical, patronising and tame, but it is outrageously funny and highly subversive.

    Brian Pendreigh · 4 out of 5
    Classic Ealing comedy where a group of Scottish islanders rescue and hide a shipwrecked cargo of whisky.

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