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Alfred Hitchcock : The 39 Steps

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jeudi 04 août 2005 [n° 286]

The 39 steps (1935)

John Buchan’s the Thirty-Nine Steps is novel of intrigue which was adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935.

Plot synopsis

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930′s London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence.

Synopsis : 39 Steps, The (1935)

Soundtrack Jack Beaver Hubert Bath (uncredited)
Charles Williams Louis Levy

Quotes :

Alfred Hitchcock on why people were fond of his thrillers :

“they like to put their toe in the cold water of fear.”

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Smith: Have you ever heard of the Thirty-Nine Steps?
Hannay: No, what’s that – a pub?
Smith: Never mind. But what you are laughing at just now is true. These men will stick at nothing. I am the only person who can stop them. If they are not stopped, it is only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.
Hannay : Well, why don’t you phone the police or something?
Smith: ‘Cause they wouldn’t believe me any more than you did. And if they did, how long do you think it would take to get them going. These men act quickly. You don’t know how clever their chief is.

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The Hitchcock Universe: Thiry-nine steps and then some by George Perry

The 39 steps, The Criterion Collection

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