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The 39 Steps is a 1935 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. It is loosely based on the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. [3]
- Wylie Watson
Wylie Watson (6 February 1889 – 3 May 1966) (born John Wylie...
- Lucie Mannheim
Mannheim was born in Köpenick, Berlin, where she studied...
- Helen Haye
Helen Haye (born Helen Hay, 28 August 1874 – 1 September...
- Wylie Watson
With Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle. A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1935-07-31
A heart-racing spy story...Richard Hannay stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across Scotland —a chase in which he is both the pu...
- 86 min
- 1.3M
- Cult Cinema Classics
While on vacation in London, Canadian Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) becomes embroiled in an international spy ring related to the mysterious "39 steps." Then he meets agent Annabella Smith...
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- Robert Donat
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Mystery & Thriller
The 39 Steps. A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors—a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued—as well as into an unexpected romance with the cool Pamela (Madeline Carroll).
- Richard Hannay
The 39 Steps, British suspense film, released in 1935, that helped establish Alfred Hitchcock as one of the leading directors in the genre and employed themes that became hallmarks of his movies. (Read Alfred Hitchcock’s 1965 Britannica essay on film production.)
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Feb 23, 2017 · Then in 1935, Hitchcock released The 39 Steps, which is an early prototype for Hitchcock’s signature “wrong man” spy thriller that mixes in comedic elements and a winking, risqué romance. The most famous version is the sprawling, iconic North by Northwest in 1959, but The 39 Steps is useful for showing Hitchcock’s minimalist technique ...