Category: Mystery
All Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1935
Country: UK
Runtime: 86
Rating: 7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him

The "Monte Cristo" hero...

The MAN who put the MAN in roMANce.

A hundred steps ahead of any picture this year

The Most Charming Brute Who Ever Scorned A Lady

Fated to be Mated with the One Man She Hated

She Hated to be Mastered... But She Learned to Like it from the Man who put the MAN in roMANce

Writing by: John Buchan - (novel "The 39 Steps")
Charles Bennett - (adaptation)
Ian Hay - (dialogue)

Produced by: Michael Balcon - producer (uncredited)
Ivor Montagu - associate producer (uncredited)

Cast: Robert Donat - Richard Hannay
Madeleine Carroll - Pamela
Lucie Mannheim - Miss Annabella Smith
Godfrey Tearle - Professor Jordan
Peggy Ashcroft - Margaret, crofters wife
John Laurie - John, crofter
Helen Haye - Mrs. Louisa Jordan
Frank Cellier - Sheriff Watson
Wylie Watson - Mr. Memory
Gus McNaughton - Commercial Traveller on Flying Scotsman (as Gus MacNaughton)
Jerry Verno - Commercial Traveller on Flying Scotsman

Music: Hubert Bath Jack Beaver Charles Williams
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Plot Outline: 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.
Plot: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girls murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Special Thanks: Mom & Dad

Goofs: We know about 8 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: Lights visible when police search the train.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] about seven minutes in, tossing some litter as Richard and Annabella run from the music hall.
• The 62 imported sheep, upon arriving at the sound stage, immediately went to work on the bracken and bushes that had been brought with them. The infuriated crew had to replace the real plants with ones hastily bought from a local nursery.
• Director Trademark: [Alfred Hitchcock] [stairs] Pamela listening to a conversation from the top of a staircase.

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