The 39 Steps (1935) ( The Thirty-Nine Steps ) ( The Thirty Nine Steps )

The 39 Steps (1935) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$23.99

Original Title: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Alternate Title: The Thirty Nine Steps
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
86 min + 100 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1935 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alfred Hitchcock

Written By:
John Buchan
Charles Bennett

Actors:
Robert Donat ..... Richard Hannay
Madeleine Carroll ..... Pamela
Lucie Mannheim ..... Annabella aka Miss Smith
Godfrey Tearle ..... Professor Jordan
Peggy Ashcroft ..... Margaret - Crofter's Wife
John Laurie ..... John - Crofter
Helen Haye ..... Mrs. Jordan
Frank Cellier ..... Sheriff Watson
Wylie Watson ..... Mr. Memory
Gus McNaughton ..... Commercial Traveller with Pipe
Jerry Verno ..... Commercial Traveller
Peggy Simpson ..... Maid
Ivor Barnard ..... Political Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
Charles Bennett ..... Second Passerby Near the Bus (uncredited)
Noel Birkin ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Ex-Det. Sergt. Bishop ..... Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Matthew Boulton ..... Fake Police Officer (uncredited)
Edgar K. Bruce ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Kate Cutler ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Philip Desborough ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Pat Hagate ..... M.C. Who Introduces Mr Memory (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock ..... Passerby Near the Bus (uncredited)
Carleton Hobbs ..... Fake Policeman #2 (uncredited)
Vida Hope ..... Usherette (uncredited)
Robert Horton ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Elizabeth Inglis ..... Professor Jordan's Daughter (uncredited)
James Knight ..... Detective at London Palladium (uncredited)
Hubert Leslie ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Miles Malleson ..... Palladium Manager (uncredited)
Quentin McPhearson ..... Clergyman on the Flying Scotsman (uncredited)
Phyllis Morris ..... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Frederick Piper ..... The Milkman (uncredited)
Hilda Trevelyan ..... Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
John Turnbull ..... Scottish Police Inspector (uncredited)
S.J. Warmington ..... Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)

Synopsis:

Richard Hannay is on the run from the police, who suspect him of murdering the woman found stabbed to death in his London flat. This story, including his photograph, are in many of the newspapers throughout Great Britain. In reality, the woman picked Hannay up at the Mr. Memory show at which they both attended, she telling him that there were two men there who were trying to kill her in an effort to obtain information which would breach national security. Hannay is not only on the run from police but is also trying to find out the nature of the potential national security breach in an effort to clear his name. All he knows from the dead woman is that it has something to do with a man in a small town in Scotland, another man who has part of his pinky finger missing and something called the 39 steps. As Hannay is on his journey of discovery all the while trying to elude both the police and the real murderers, he is forced out of circumstances outside of his control to take along a feisty young woman named Pamela whose continued belligerence toward him is despite her precarious situation.

A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information.

Alfred Hitchcock considered The 39 Steps to be one of his favourite films, partly because it launched his classic theme of the innocent man on the run from villains and lawmen. Robert Donat stars as Richard Hannay in this freely adapted version of John Buchan's story. Despite repeated remakes Hitchcock's riveting original remains unequalled.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 08 May, 2011.