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Title:
        39 Steps, The (1935)

URL:
  http://www.imdb.com/Title?39%20Steps%2C%20The%20%281935%29

Aka Titles:
  39 Stufen, Die (1935) (Germany)
  Club dei 39, Il (1935) (Italy)
  Club dei trentanove, Il (1935) (Italy)
  Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1935)

Tag Line:
  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 


Production Company:
  Gaumont International [fr]
  Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Ltd. [uk]

Distributor:
  Gaumont British (USA)
  Filmes Luís Machado [pt] (Portugal)
  LS Video (video)
  G.F.D. (UK)
  G.E.C.E. (France)

Country of Production:
  UK

Certificates:
  UK:U
  Sweden:15

Running Time:
  USA:86
  Sweden:88

Filmed In:
  Black and White

Sound Mix:
  Mono

Technical Info:
  Negative Format: 35 mm
  Process: Spherical
  Print Format: 35 mm
  Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Release Date:
  USA:1 August 1935
  Sweden:14 April 1936
  Portugal:11 May 1936
  Denmark:16 July 1951 (re-release)

Locations:
  Forth Bridge, South Queensferry, Scotland, UK

Language:
  English

Summary:
  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 girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring. 

Summary by:
  Claudio Sandrini (pulp99@geocities.com)

Summary:
  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. 

Summary by:
  Col Needham (cn@imdb.com)

Genres:
  Mystery  Thriller

Keywords:
  based-on-novel  handcuffs  london  murder  road  spy-gang  spy

Producers:
  Michael Balcon (uncredited)
  Ivor Montagu (uncredited)

Director:
  Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: (credits order)
  John Buchan (I) (novel)

  Charles Bennett (I) (adaptation)

  Alma Reville (continuity)

  Ian Hay (dialogue)

Composer:
  Hubert Bath (uncredited)

Cinematographer:
  Bernard Knowles

Editor:
  Derek N. Twist (as Derek Twist)

Costume Designer:
  Joe Strassner (as J. Strassner)

Art Directors:
  Albert Jullion
  Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (as O. Werndorff)

Sound:
  A. Birch (sound)

Verified Complete Cast: (credits order)
  Robert Donat ...................... Richard Hannay
  Madeleine Carroll ................. Pamela
  Lucie Mannheim .................... Annabella Smith
  Godfrey Tearle .................... Professor Jordan
  Peggy Ashcroft .................... Margaret
  John Laurie (I) ................... John
  Helen Haye ........................ Mrs. Jordan
  Frank Cellier ..................... Sheriff
  Wylie Watson ...................... Memory
  Gus McNaughton (as Gus MacNaughton) .. Commercial Traveler
  Jerry Verno ....................... Commercial Traveler
  Peggy Simpson (I) ................. Maid

Remainder of Cast: (alphabetical order)
  Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited) ..... Littering man near music hall

Miscellaneous:
  Louis Levy (musical director)
  Marianne (I) (wardrober)
  Alma Reville (continuity)

Crew verified as complete.

Movie Links:
  (referenced in Have You Got Any Castles (1938))
  (referenced in Lease of Life (1954))
  (spoofed in High Anxiety (1977))
  (spoofed in Foul Play (1978))
  (featured in Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears, A (1994) (TV))
  (featured in Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999) (TV))
  (version of Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1959))
  (version of Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1978))

Trivia:
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 7 minutes in, tossing some litter as
  Richard and Annabella run from the music hall.

Goofs:
- CREW: Crew visible when Hannay turns mirror to the wall.

- CREW: Lights visible when police search the train.

Quotes:
Richard Hannay: I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to
  have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men
  or women ought to feel.

Richard Hannay: There are 20 million women in this island and I get
  to be chained to you.


Literature:
  Novel:
    Buchan, John. 39 Steps, The 

  Critics:
    In: Diário de Notícias (Portugal). 05.03.1999. p. 55. (NP)


Business Info:
  Studio:
    Lime Grove Studio, England


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