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Title: Flawed but Improved Restoration
Review: The restoration that is done is by removing scratches, but the film still suffers from graininess. No doubt that within a decade, the use of computers will be able to fully restore these films by filling in all the missing dots.The Lady Vanishes is one of the most imitated films ever. Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne are great as the homosexual pair disdaining almost everything. And Margaret Lockwood shines as one of the great (though little known) beauties of the century, somewhat of a cross between Myrna Loy and Vivian Leigh . All three were reunited in Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich just two years later.It might be interesting to compare the performances of Radford and Wayne to that of Jim Parsons in the Big Bang Theory. What we take for granted in film today was built upon the reels of the past. If everything were so obvious from the start, the Wright brothers would just have built a stealth bomber at Kittyhawk.
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