Hugh Wakefield
Language
English
Description
A British man on vacation in Switzerland is told of an assassination plot by a dying agent. His daughter is kidnapped to force his silence. In typical Hitchcock fashion, the innocent person becomes caught in a web of intrigue; the sticky situation culminates with surprising events during the famous shootout in the final scenes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"In this heart-pounding suspense story, spies kidnap a young girl, in an attempt to prevent her parents from revealing what they know about an assassination plot. The action takes you from the Swiss Alps to Britain's Albert Hall and London's East End."
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2001, [c1999]
Language
English
Description
"Married couple Bob and Jill Lawrence are vacationing in Switzerland with daughter Betty. A Frenchman who befriends the family is shot through the heart during a dance with the young mother. Before dying, however, he whispers a secret... What follows is an unusually fine dramatic story, filled with hallmark Hitchcockian twists and turns, breathless chase scenes and superb acting."-container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
Publisher
Diamond Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A fully restored and enhanced digitally mastered collection of Hitchcock's early works. It includes thirteen films on five discs.
The lady vanishes: "When a kindly old lady disappears on a train, an acquaintance searches for clues to the missing woman's disappearance"--Container.
Sabotage: "A woman who works at a movie theater suspects that her quiet husband might be the terrorist planting bombs around London"--Container.
Blackmail: "The story...