Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: The 39 Steps
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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movie The 39 Steps from 1939.
The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.
It is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.
It concerns an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organisation of spies called "The 39 Steps" from stealing British military secrets.
After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman while hoping to stop the spy ring and clear his name.
Since its initial release, the film has been widely acknowledged as a classic.
Filmmaker and actor Orson Welles referred to it as a "masterpiece".
Screenwriter Robert Towne remarked, "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with The 39 Steps."
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Produced by: Michael Balcon.
Screenplay by: Charles Bennett and Ian Hay.
Based on: The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915 novel: by John Buchan.
Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim and Godfrey Tearle.
Music by: Louis Levy and Jack Beaver (uncredited).
Cinematography: Bernard Knowles.
Edited by: Derek N. Twist.
Production company: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
Distributed by: Gaumont British Distributors.
Release date: 6 June 1935 (London) and 2 August 1935 (U.S.).
Running time: 86 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom.
Language: English.
Budget: £50,000.
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