The Lady Vanishes - 2013 - 5/10

Glossy remake of “The Wheel Spins” by Ethel Lina White, on which Hitchcock based his 1938 classic.
Young flapper meets spinster on a train through the Balkans.
When the old woman disappears, and all passengers declare they never saw her, the girl investigates.
This telling is supposedly more faithful to the book. No Nazis, just scandal and intrigue.
Nice costumes, claustrophobic train compartments (even a library car), and enigmatic strangers.
Unfortunately, the female lead is extremely unsympathetic. Rude, entitled, selfish.
You want someone, anyone, to eject her from the train. Hopefully when it is on a bridge. A high one.
Blame bad directing and a script too modern for this period piece.
Otherwise, passable wet afternoon film.