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After appearing in the Hitchcock film The 39 Steps (1935), and a succession of stage failures, Ashcroft was once again cast as Juliet by Gielgud, this time in a West End production that attracted enormous attention. It ran from October 1935 to March 1936, and Ashcroft's Romeos were played in alternation by Olivier and Gielgud.
The 39 Steps is one in a line of Hitchcock films based upon an innocent man being forced to go on the run, including The Lodger (1927), Saboteur (1942) and North by Northwest (1959).
Crofter's Wife : Oh, you should see Sauchiohall Street with all its fine shops - and Argyll Street on a Saturday night - with the trams and the lights - and the cinema palaces and their crowds. And it's Saturday night tonight. Crofter's Wife : You'll be tired.
Robert Donat became a major star playing the hero Richard Hannay in this movie while, for the role of a crofter's wife who helps the fugitive hero, Hitchcock chose 27-year old Peggy Ashcroft, later Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Academy Award winner for A Passage to India (1984).
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Robert Donat
The 39 Steps. 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.
- (62K)
- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1935-07-31
Aug 4, 2017 · There he is offered lodgings by a dour crofter (John Laurie) and his much younger wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She has forsaken the excitements of the city for a life of boredom and drudgery and, while she wants to help Hannay, her husband is more interested in betraying him for a reward.
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The 39 Steps (1935) Synopsis. Canadian Richard Hanney is visiting London when he meets a mysterious spy named Annabella Smith. When Smith is murdered in his apartment, Hannay is forced to go on the run from both the police and the foreign spies who killed her. Heading north to Scotland, Hannay is seemingly betrayed at every opportunity.
