Interesting setup, which has a woman being gaslighted by hotel keepers in Paris, told that the brother she checked in with was never there when he disappears. In fact, his whole room disappears. It's straight out of Hitchcock, especially when someone who might confirm her story goes up in a hot air balloon and we can feel the tension. Unfortunately the film doesn't seem to understand how terrifying or menacing the situation would be to the woman (Jean Simmons), occasionally dropping in dopey music when we should be feeling our skin crawl, and by the middle of the film it was hard to stay fully invested. The payoff is absolutely ridiculous too, so bad that the writers should have been ashamed of themselves. Watch Hitchcock's 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938) instead.
Review of So Long at the Fair
