Paul Evans Iris Carr is a rich and beautiful Socialite holidaying in The Mediterranean, bored with her friends and the lifestyle, she decides to stay on as they set for home. She realises she's bored without her friends and decides to head home to London, by train. She pays over the odds for her seat, then suffers an accident, almost missing her train. Concussed, she befriends the prim English lady Miss Froy, who tells Iris her life story, and reasons for leaving her powerful employer, after falling into a deep sleep Miss Froy disappears, but nobody can remember who Miss Froy was, was she dreaming? Only fellow traveller Max Hare offers a helping hand.I'm surprised there are so many less then favourable reviews for this production. It is immaculately produced, it looks utterly marvellous, with flawless camera work, it's so bright and vivid. I'd say it's tremendously well acted too, Tuppence Middleton is fantastic as Iris Carr, she does a great job playing the spoilt brat turned nice girl. Stephanie Cole and Gemma Jones make a wonderful dry and judgmental pair. Possibly Selina Cadell steals the show as Miss Froy, what a cracking actress she is.So they made a few tweaks to the script, in order to jazz it up and bring it up to date, it's been produced several times, and I was glad they did something a little different. The ending is really brilliantly crafted.A cracking drama, 9/10

clynn05 Falls far short of the original. This was such a disappointment to watch after I had really looked forward to it. The previews made it look worth watching but I really felt it was a waste of my time. I didn't like the characters. I didn't like the way the relationship was developed or portrayed between Iris and... I didn't even catch his name... that's how poorly it was done... Just didn't like much about the show at all. About the only character I did like was Miss Froy. The plot was over-dramatized and difficult to follow. And I don't know why this review has to be 10 lines long. It is really irritating. There just isn't that much to say, and who is going to want to read a long review anyway. I try not to say so much as to give away the story, the plot, or the ending. That would only ruin it for others who wanted to watch.

Rich Wright I think I may have seen the Hitchcock original, in the dim and distant past, round my grandparents house while playing Kerplunk. Needless to say, my memories of it are hazy at best, so I can hardly compare it to this made for TV modern version.Keeley Hawes plays the heroine who eventually feels the whole world is conspiring against her, and although I think there may be a few more clues to the solution compared to the 1938 classic, this doesn't make the frustration we feel for her predicament or the confusion as to what the hell's going on any less palpable.Online talk has dismissed this remake as a cheap copy, but you know what? Judged on it's own merits, it's a super piece of entertainment, and all the moaners can get a life. NOTHING these days is unique, everything has been ripped off and imitated to the ninth degree, so why waste time worrying? ENJOY YOURSELF!! 7/10

Adams5905 My God this was so awful, I barely know where to start!..This was a period piece, and yet some of the dialogue was pure 21st century 'smart-speak'. People did not feel 'empathy' in pre-war Britain (and would certainly never had admitted feeling such to strangers if they had). The scriptwriters seem to have forgotten the separate meanings and contextual uses of 'will' and 'shall', and the accents were Estuarine in the extreme. There was far too much breathless 'gushing' by our heroine (who ever thought to cast Middleton in this role anyway?.. She hasn't the screen presence nor the ability to convey any sort of emotion other than a rather hollow & supercilious haughtiness), and Tom Hughes (Max Hare) simply carried on where he left off in 'Dancing on the Edge'...The only characters with any sort of screen credulity were the Reverend and his wife, and even they had to be given a paper-thin sideplot to flesh out their presence...Rhind-Tutt was completely wasted, and even Stephanie Cole's attempts at caustic wit were cheap and shallow...Where was the menacing threat of Hitchcock's original?..The whole thing reeked of hurried, seedy amateurism...I thought the 1979 remake with Gould and Shepherd was bad, but even that production had some saving graces (remember Arthur Lowe & Ian Carmichael as the two cricket-mad Englishmen). The main question is why bother making it at all?.. A shabby remake, poorly thrown together, with a second-no, make that a third-rate cast.