------------------------------------------------------------- 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 # ----------------------------------------------------------- # To receive full help on the movie mail-server send e-mail # with the subject # # HELP # # to (mail-server@imdb.com) # # Regards, Internet Movie Database Server Daemon # -----------------------------------------------------------