to deliver to the Foreign Office in Whitehall—the same tune that the murdered street musician performed for her. Miss Froy then runs into the forest and those on the train are not sure whether or not she is shot. Todhunter attempts to surrender, waving a white handkerchief, and is shot dead. Gilbert and Caldicott then commandeer the locomotive, but the knocked out soldier wakes up and threatens the rest of the guests. The nun escapes through a side door and changes the tracks but is shot in the leg; however, Caldicott and Gilbert manage to pull her up into the train before she is left behind. In London, Charters and Caldicott discover the Test Match has been cancelled due to flooding. Seeing her fiancé from a distance, Iris jumps into a cab with Gilbert. He kisses her. They arrive at the Foreign Office, but in the waiting room Gilbert realizes he cannot remember the vital tune. As they are led into the office, Gilbert and Iris then hear it. The doors open, revealing Miss Froy is playing the tune on a piano. Cast Margaret Lockwood as Iris Henderson Michael Redgrave as Gilbert Paul Lukas as Dr. Hartz May Whitty as Miss Froy Cecil Parker as Mr. Todhunter Linden Travers as "Mrs." Todhunter Naunton Wayne as Caldicott Basil Radford as Charters Mary Clare as Baroness as Hotel Manager Googie Withers as Blanche Sally Stewart as Julie Philip Leaver as Signor Doppo Selma Vaz Dias as Signora Doppo Catherine Lacey as the Nun Josephine Wilson as Madame Kummer Charles Oliver as the Officer Kathleen Tremaine as Anna Production Development The Lady Vanishes was originally called The Lost Lady, and Irish director Roy William Neill was assigned by producer Edward Black to make it. A crew was dispatched to Yugoslavia to do background shots, but when the Yugoslav police accidentally discovered that they were not well-portrayed in the script, they kicked the crew out of the country, and Black scrapped the project. A year later, Hitchcock could not come up with a property to direct to fulfil his contract with Black, so he accepted when Black offered The Lost Lady to him. Writing Hitchcock worked with the writers to make some changes to tighten up the opening and ending of the story, but otherwise the script did not change much. The plot of Hitchcock's film differs considerably from White's novel. In The Wheel