Criterion’s sensible approach is to talk about how tough it is for this film to get out from under the shadow of The Lady Vanishes, and that it really should be considered on its own terms. Definitely. It’s good that the film is available, and there are certainly points of interest: a few nice twists, some decent character turns (the Nazi bureaucrat, the Swiss guy at the end). Harrison is a treat, and Naunton and Wayne have another, even better field day than they did last time. (The cricket and golf talk is really funny, in a nice joke’s-on-us way.) But really, Hitchcock’s movie is so incalculably better! Margaret Lockwood is just a pill. As suspense the whole thing is pretty flaccid. The Swiss conclusion is flaccid with terrible model and effects work. That last paragraph wasn’t very constructive, or positive. Sorry about that! But it is how I feel …