So Long at the Fair (1950)
The 1889 Paris Exposition serves as the backdrop for this eerie mystery, in which English tourist Jean Simmons (No, not the one from Kiss) and her brother, David Tomlinson, visit the fair and retire to their separate hotel rooms for the night. Simmons arises the next day to discover her brother missing, a hotel full of staff who swear they've never heard of him and most oddly, his room is no longer there.
So Long at the Fair is a classy British mystery directed by a pre-Hammer Terence Fisher who gives the whole thing an extremely paranoid feel, very much them - the foreigners - and us - The British abroad. It's all quite slick and nicely paced. Simmons does well with the whole 'Am i losing my mind' approach and Dirk Bogarde is stoically heroic as the only person who believes her. Whilst the film isn't a horror by any stretch of the imagination it's certainly a dark thriller and the finale is wonderfully macabre.
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