Plot Summary

The film is set before World War II. On the train, riding from the Tyrol in London, mysteriously disappears elderly lady. Her fellow traveler begins to investigate the incident with a young man. Gradually, they, along with the rest of the passengers find themselves embroiled in espionage intrigue.

Did You Know?

The film was shot in the Studio pavilion Islington, a length of about 30 meters.

Cameo Hitchcock — the man at the end of the film, dressed in a black coat and Smoking a cigar at the station "Victoria".

Non-existent country, where traveling by train the main characters in the beginning of the film called miss Froy, she says: "Bandrika is one of the few unexplored corners of Europe". Also throughout the film you can define three stations, Solna (Zolnay), Kavka (Dravka) and Morschen (Morsken).

Gilbert says he once drove a scaled-down locomotive on the line Dymchurch (Dymchurch). Ranevskaya (Romney), kicevska (Hythe) and dimercury (Dymchurch) railroad actually exist. They are a smaller version of Railways (about 1/3 normal size) and is located in the South East of England. Data on railroads still used steam locomotives, which carry out transportation at a distance of 13 miles.

After filming Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford very often appeared together and also led his own radio program.

Since the action takes place in a fictional Bandrika, Boris, the Manager of the hotel who speaks with a non-existent andriankin accent. This does not prevent him in one of the dialogues to say a common Jewish expression "Oy vey is mir" ("O Woe is me!").

Initially, in 1936, the film was Roy William Neil, who conducted the shoot in Yugoslavia. The first images depicted marching soldiers, happy to wallow in the water a flock of geese. The Yugoslav authorities saw this as an insult to the honor of the national army, confiscated the script, and the group was expelled from the country. After that, film production was halted for 2 years. Continued its already Alfred Hitchcock.

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