The Lady Vanishes has actually been made three times to my knowledge! I wrote about it here after watching the first one, although the book is still on my to-read list: https://elperian.dreamwidth.org/840744.html
(I do like the Hitchcock version for incorporating these shadowy pre-WW2 elements that tell us something about what people knew about what was happening in Germany and how they responded to it before the war broke out. It's like Casablanca in that way.)
This is a hard question for me to answer because if a movie doesn't land for me, it often falls off to a blip in my memory - unless I *really* don't like it. I had to go through my movie review post for some ideas! But my answer is: Brigadoon! The 1954 version just doesn't use very many elements of Scottish culture and the ending for the guy who doesn't go back to the town is just so damn sad! I'd like to see more women as main characters, develop them beyond the romantic interests, and get more backstory on what was going on in the town before the spell was laid.
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(I do like the Hitchcock version for incorporating these shadowy pre-WW2 elements that tell us something about what people knew about what was happening in Germany and how they responded to it before the war broke out. It's like Casablanca in that way.)
This is a hard question for me to answer because if a movie doesn't land for me, it often falls off to a blip in my memory - unless I *really* don't like it. I had to go through my movie review post for some ideas! But my answer is: Brigadoon! The 1954 version just doesn't use very many elements of Scottish culture and the ending for the guy who doesn't go back to the town is just so damn sad! I'd like to see more women as main characters, develop them beyond the romantic interests, and get more backstory on what was going on in the town before the spell was laid.