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Ethel Lina White

1876 – 1944 · Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Active 1938–2013

Ethel Lina White (2 April 1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. She was best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock 1938 film The Lady Vanishes was based.

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The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

1979 ★ 6.6
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Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other passengers are led into confrontation with the Nazis and a desperate race for freedom.

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Filmography

8 credits
Crew Credits
2010s 1 credit
2013
Movie ★ 6.4
2000s 1 credit
2000
Movie ★ 5.1
1970s 2 credits
1979
Movie ★ 6.0
1975
Movie ★ 4.9
1960s 1 credit
1962
TV ★ 7.9
1940s 2 credits
1946
Movie ★ 7.1
1945
Movie ★ 4.6
1930s 1 credit
1938
Movie ★ 7.4