Sunday, May 13, 2012

Random Hitchcock: 39 Steps


Still working through my Hitchcock grab bag; it's been part of a weekend long Mother's Day gift for me



Full movie embed courtesy of Internet Archive

This is by far the most well known of Hitchcock British films--even to the point of it being made fun of on Sesame Street.  The Lady Vanishes does also make it onto some lists of important Hitchcock films, The 39 Steps shows up on almost all of them.  Though very loosely based on the novel of the same name by John Buchan, it remains the most highly regarded film adaptations of that work (I love this film, but I've seen other adaptation of the novel that are better in terms of being faithful to the story).  It stars Robert Donat (you know, V from V For Vendetta favorite movie The Count Of Monte Cristo, where he stars as Edmund Dantes) and Madeleine Carroll (one of Hitchcock's blonde actresses).  The story is another one Hitch's spy-capades on the run up to World War II--which is, I'm sure, the reason that screenwriter, at Hitchcock's behest, Charles Bennett "messed" around with the novel's story in the first place.   



















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