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.
Alberto Cavalcanti’s contribution might be the finest single episode to appear in any horror anthology film.
Two classics of early British horror have been thoughtfully doubled-up on a DVD release that should be on any fright fan’s shelf.
