The Lady Vanishes
LONE among my friends I did not see the film version of The Lady Vanishes, but feel I can now hold up my head after hearing the very competent NZBS production (adapted from the film adapted from the book), The plot is, naturally enough for an aboveaverage thriller, complicated, and incidents explode one on top of another, but the listener had no difficulty in following "the action. This was partly due to careful casting. It was naturally easy enough to distinguish Nazties from nicies by the foreign accent of the former, but- the producer had a more exacting task when it was a question of making distinct to the audience each of the many characters speaking Public devotees of the film may have winced to School English. He succeeded, though hear such very unmellow players tack-
ling the Radford and Wayne-tailored roles of Caldecott and Charteris, and may have thought Margaret and Eric scarcely at home in their parts. But these were minor details. The plot, the brisk parry and thrust of the dialogue, and above all the wild war-whoops of the speeding train (atmosphere and pace ready-made for radio) carried the whole programme swiftly on to its dénouement. Bouquets to the NZBS for an hour of splendid entertainment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 8
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212The Lady Vanishes New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 8
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