Torn between wanting a Blu Ray player and knowing that certain death awaits me when I watch this on it.
my film history class watched The Lady Vanishes today. (I was the only person - besides my teacher, of course - who had already seen it.) I have always loved Michael Redgrave as Gilbert, though no one else in my class seemed to think very much of him. As far as my classmates were concerned, he might as well have been a very tall mop. For them he’s merely one more in a sea of faces paraded before us, his last name perhaps ringing a distance bell… but I think they’ll forget him after this term is over. It’s a shame.
That’s just more Gilbert for us to love. This is the movie that made me love Michael Redgrave. Gilbert is just so….guh. He’s funny, a little bit rude, brave and terribly sexy. And the way he dresses. A three-piece tweed suit with a bowtie? Yes, please! Who cares what your classmates think. If they are anything like mine back when I was in film class, they turned up in sweatpants and uggs and slept through the movie. Unlike mine, (since the internet didn’t exist when I was last in film class…) they will probably crib a review off some poor saps blog for their homework. Fuck em. You got class, baby. And obviously so does your teacher.
# Gilbert # I haurange the youth of today # Michael Redgrave # you tweedy steed you # The lady Vanishes # Alfred Hitchcock
Iris Henderson: You’re the most contemptible person I’ve ever met in all my life!
Gilbert: Confidentially, I think you’re a bit of a stinker, too.The Lady Vanishes - Alfred Hitchcock (1938).
You two! Stop lying and get your tweed sexy on!
(Source: besieging)
# the lady vanishes # alfred hitchcock # margaret lockwood # michael redgrave
# Alfred Hitchcock # Margaret Lockwood # Michael Redgrave # The Lady Vanishes # tweed
the lady vanishes (1938)
my favorite childhood film, as nothing says “good for small children” like “hostage train passengers fighting nazis”
Dame Mae Whitty is a True Heroine of tweed.
# alfred hitchcock # hitchcock # margaret lockwood # michael redgrave # the lady vanishes # Dame Mae Whitty # True Heroine of Tweed
Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Steps is one of my favorites….LOVE Robert Donat. I wish he had made more movies!
TWEED: the only fabric to wear when your handcuffed to a beautiful lady and eating sandwiches.
The 39 Steps (1935), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Why are you standing under a lamp-post though? Were you out sick the day they taught covert surveillance in spy school?
Reblogging for Donat’s awesome tweed trench top coat.
Richard Hannay, hero of Alfred Hitchock’s The 39 Steps (1935) is another of my tweed-clad heroes. Hannay’s tweed suit survives a chase across the Scottish highlands, including a stint under a waterfall, being shot, jumping out of a window, climbing out of a moving train and spending the night handcuffed to a beautiful girl. After all this it’s presentable for a night at the London Palladium in the final scene of the film.
The first post at Oh, my tweedy steed has to be Gilbert, the hero of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 film The Lady Vanishes. Gilbert is an anthropologist so the tweed fits with his academic side. He gets himself into a scrape involving a pretty lady (whose love of l’ascots could probably inspire a whole other tumblr) and an international spy ring. So he’s romantic and adventurous, a side of tweed that we don’t see often enough. Furthermore, Gilbert is to my mind the quintessential British hero: helpful, sardonic, brave and incredibly sexy. All things that tweed can be if a fabric can be brave or sardonic. He hides his chivalrous nature under a facade of reverse snobbery and practicality (and what could be more practical than good old tweed?)
