The chaos of the opening - an avalanche in an obscure European country has caused a train cancellation - seems to me reflective of the pre-war tensions and chaos of 1938. This becomes more evident as foreign powers are behind the mystery of the vanishing lady. And - a tip to the kind of war we're going to get - holding up a white flag (handkerchief) won't stop you getting killed.
I am an idiot because it's taken me this long to realise the strangled singer is the one passing on the code to Dame May Whitty.
It's very funny, particularly in the attitudes of the two Brits, whose references to Britain 'being on the brink' aren't talking about war (well, of course that is the sub text) but cricket!
There's very cheeky humour throughout. And that chaos is reflected elsewhere - the messy scrap between Redgrave and magician Philip Leaver makes one think ahead to the very messy murder in Torn Curtain. And a railway carriage full of birds? Ok that may be stretching things too far, but the bird getting into the crate with the calf is hilarious.
And there's Hitch at the end at the railway station!
Lots of good humour throughout. Cab driver to kissing couple in back: "Are you going anywhere?"
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