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Original title: 39 Steps, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 1, 1998
• R2: 13 Aug 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 26 minutes
Country UK
Production Companies
Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd.
Studio Gaumont
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Other Titles
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
• Die 39 Stufen (1947)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Spy, Murder, Police, On The Road, Political, Escape
Tagline: Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him
Plot: Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) is a Canadian rancher on vacation in London who sees a vaudeville act at the Palladium in which Mr. Memory (Wylie Watson) draws on his photographic memory to answer questions posed by the audience. When a shot rings out in the theater a frightened young woman approaches Hannay and asks for his help. The woman claims that foreign spies who plan to smuggle valuable military secrets out of the country are after her, and when she herself is later killed, Hannay finds himself both framed as the man responsible for her death as well as the next potential victim of the spy ring. Traversing through rural Scotland, on the run from both the police and the spies, Hannay finds himself attached to a cool but reluctant blonde, and together they have to figure out the meaning of the woman's last words and bring down the spy ring before the precious military secrets are smuggled abroad. THE THIRTY NINE STEPS is the film that established Hitchcock as the master of the mystery spy-thriller.
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John Buchan
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| Jack Beaver
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