Yeah they are pretty alike, but this is a remake you know.
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The movie you are refering to is "So Long at the Fair". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042980/
I saw it a couple years ago, and as I was watching Dangerous Crossing, I started to think it was the same plot, except on a ship. But after a while, you see the stories only have the set-up of the plots the same (vrey much the same), they then go in two different directions.
The also did the same plot of "So Long At the Fair" on tv.
In an episode of the tv show Alfred Hitchcock Presents.His daughter Patricia Hitchcock played Diana Winthrop in the episode.
Plot Summary for
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Into Thin Air (1955)
Diana Winthrop and her mother arrive in Paris, where a World Exposition is taking place. Mrs. Winthrop had started to feel very tired during the journey, so after they check into their hotel, Diana calls for a doctor. After examining Mrs. Winthrop, the doctor sends Diana in his carriage to his own home, where his wife prepares a medication. A number of things seem odd to Diana, but things become much more worrisome when she returns to the hotel. The desk clerk does not remember her, her signature has disappeared from the hotel register, someone else is occupying her room, and her mother has completely disappeared.
The same plot was used on two more tv shows I've seen. The Big Valley & Bonanza. Both had two people in each family traveling and when they arrive at their detestation everyone claims the confused family member came alone. On the Big Valley episode Audra got sick with a contagious disease and the town told Victoria she arrived alone. On Bonanza Ben is told the same thing when the town suspects Hoss shows signs of anthrax during a big cattle sale and hide him.
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Only from the take that the main character
spends the majority of the film that someone actually exists.
FLIGHTPLAN 2005 was actually closer to BUNNY LAKE IS MiSSING.
Don't forget there are plenty of films in which the main character suddenly finds that someone is missing and all traces of that individual have been carefully removed as well: SO LONG AT THE FAIR,
HONEYMOON WITH A STRANGER.
Hell, there've plenty of tv shows that have taken the same plot.
I remember an episode of THE BIG VALLEY where Victoria and Audra are travelling and Audra suddenly disapperred; same stuff.
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You've summed it all up pretty well. I too right away thought of Bunny Lake as well as Flight Plan. True, the details are different but the basic theme - did the missing person ever really exist? - is very much the same.
shareI just saw "Dangerous Crossing" for the first time and the theme regarding a missing person did bring up watching the "Flight Plan" movie and others like "Bunny Lake is missing". There have been quite a few movies and TV shows regarding the theme of losing someone and everyone else does not believe you. This movie was pretty good at throwing out a few "red herrings" to keep up the mystery of the storyline.
share" The Big Valley " TV show ... also had a story line like this .. The one when Victoria Barkley loses daughter Audra in a small town and no one believes her .
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I'd like a chance t' shoot at an educated man once in my life .
Basically this movie is like "Gaslight" , "Midnight Lace" -- wealthy young woman gets the world wind courtship, marries hastily, then things start to happen, quickly after that cause people to ?? the wife's sanity. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
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