When the Wind Blows
1988
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Peggy Ashcroft. Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
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] It concerns a Canadian civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organisation of spies called "The 39 Steps ...
Crofter's Wife : You'll be tired. Richard Hannay : I'll say I am. I'm on the tramp, looking for a job. Richard Hannay : What will happen to you? Crofter's Wife : Oh, I'll say I couldn't stop you. Richard Hannay : He'll not ill treat you? Crofter's Wife : No. He'll pray at me, but no more.
1.37 : 1. Film Length. 7,821ft. On vacation in London, Canadian Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in a spy hunt when a German double-agent, Miss Smith, is murdered in his apartment. He is suspected of the murder, and in his search for the real murderer, he abducts an attractive blonde named Pamela. As the two travel through Britain, Pamela comes ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Robert Donat
Aug 4, 2017 · The 39 Steps was mostly shot in the studio and this adds to its charm and gives the film a heightened sense of reality. By this time, the 35 year old Hitchcock was already British cinema's wunderkind , having directed The Lodger (1926), Blackmail (1929) (usually considered to be Britain’s first talkie) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).
The 39 Steps: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 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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Dame Peggy Ashcroft DBE, born Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, was an acclaimed Academy Award-winning English actress. One of her earliest film roles was the minor part of the crofter's wife in Alfred Hitchcock 's The 39 Steps (1935). She died in London, following a stroke at the age of 83.
