This Criterion transfer of Carol Reed’s crackerjack war-time genre-bender is serviceable rather than extraordinary.
For the man who would become the “master of suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes gets off to a somewhat lumbering start.
Two classics of early British horror have been thoughtfully doubled-up on a DVD release that should be on any fright fan’s shelf.
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