Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Into Thin Air
Introduction
"Into Thin Air" (also known as "The Vanishing Lady") was originally broadcast on 30/Oct/1955 as part of the first season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Diane Winthrop comes to the 1899 Paris World's Exposition and checks into a hotel with her mother. Her mother becomes seriously ill. A hotel doctor asks Diane to go out for medicine. When she returns, her mother has vanished into thin air. No one remembers either Diane or her mother. Even the appearance of the hotel room has changed. Diane begins to fear that she is going insane. Fortunately, she is able to solve the mystery. Her mother died of bubonic plauge. Fearing a public panic in tourist filled Paris, everyone in the hotel conspired to make it look as if her mother had never existed. (TV.com)
DVD Releases
The following official DVD releases contain this episode:
Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - associate producer
Written by:
- Alexander Woollcott - story (uncredited)
- Marian B. Cockrell - teleplay (as Marian Cockrell)
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Himself - Host
- Patricia Hitchcock — cast: Diana Winthrop (as Pat Hitchcock)
- Geoffrey Toone — cast: Basil Farnham
- Alan Napier — cast: Sir Everett
- Maurice Marsac — cast: Clerk
- Mary Forbes — cast: Mrs. Winthrop
- Ann Codee — cast: Doctor's Wife
- Gerry Gaylor — cast: Maid
- John Mylong — cast: Doctor
- Albert D'Arno — cast: Bellhop (as Albert d'Arno)
- Peter Camlin — cast: Porter
- Jack Chefe — cast: Detective
- Michael Hadlow — cast: Maris
Cinematography by:
- Reggie Lanning - director of photography
Edited by:
Radio Adapations
- Cabin B-13 (Suspense, 09/Nov/1943)
- The Vanishing Lady (Escape, 01/Feb/1948)
- The Vanishing Lady (Suspense, 07/Apr/1957)
