The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle
Synopsis:
A Canadian in London is drawn into an espionage plot to remove official Air Ministry documents from the country when a woman he helped evade her pursuers is found stabbed to death in his flat.
Review:
Fast-moving enough for the various plot holes to pass all but unnoticed, this witty and sexy thriller is in the director's best style, combining visual flourishes with sequences of suspense and iconoclastic humour. The plot device of an accused man out to prove his innocence was one to which he was repeatedly drawn, notably in Saboteur and North by Northwest.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle
Synopsis:
A Canadian in London is drawn into an espionage plot to remove official Air Ministry documents from the country when a woman he helped evade her pursuers is found stabbed to death in his flat.
Review:
Fast-moving enough for the various plot holes to pass all but unnoticed, this witty and sexy thriller is in the director's best style, combining visual flourishes with sequences of suspense and iconoclastic humour. The plot device of an accused man out to prove his innocence was one to which he was repeatedly drawn, notably in Saboteur and North by Northwest.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle
Synopsis:
A Canadian in London is drawn into an espionage plot to remove official Air Ministry documents from the country when a woman he helped evade her pursuers is found stabbed to death in his flat.
Review:
Fast-moving enough for the various plot holes to pass all but unnoticed, this witty and sexy thriller is in the director's best style, combining visual flourishes with sequences of suspense and iconoclastic humour. The plot device of an accused man out to prove his innocence was one to which he was repeatedly drawn, notably in Saboteur and North by Northwest.