Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Acting
Tuppence Middleton sells unraveling like she invented it.
Production
Period train aesthetics: claustrophobic, smoky, deeply wrong.
Writing
The conspiracy unspools with nasty little precision.
Director
Diarmuid Lawrence
Tuppence Middleton
Iris Carr
Keeley Hawes
Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Sir Peveril Brown aka Mr Todhunter
Sandy McDade
Edna Barnes
Pip Torrens
Reverend Kenneth Barnes
Stephanie Cole
Evelyn Floodporter
Gemma Jones
Rose Floodporter
Benedikte Hansen
The baroness
Jesper Christensen
The doctor
Selina Cadell
Winifred Froy
Tom Hughes
Maximilian "Max" Hare
Alex Jennings
Professor Hastings
Paolo Antonio Simioni
Border guard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a BBC remake of Hitchcock's 1938 classic—both adapted from Ethel Lina White's novel 'The Wheel Spins'. The 1938 version is untouchable; this one dares to exist anyway.
Keeley Hawes plays two roles here, a nod to the original's dual-casting trick. The film quietly asks: which faces do we actually see on women?
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