After a panic scene into a music-hall where actuates Mr. Memory(Watson),Richard(Robert Donat)invites his house a foreign(Mannheim)whom pursues a espionage net called 39 steps.Later he goes to Scotland where is pursued at the same time by the police and the spies.Richard is handcuffed to a unknown beautiful blonde(Madeleine Carroll).They confront united several risks,odds and misfortunes.
This is the most important pursuit-film in the Hitchcock's British period as ¨North by Northwest¨(1959)is in American stage. The movie combines imagination,thriller,action and satirical comedy. Picture contains the usual elements argument in Hitchcock as the wrong guilty,pursuits,and the McGuffin,this time are the 39 steps. Elegant and charming Robert Donat(1905-1958)submitted to continuous escapes is top-notch.Delightful Madeleine Carroll(recent her acting for John Ford) as distinguished and elegant blonde is marvellous .The support casting is frankly excellent,John Laurie,Helen Haye and famed theatre actress Peggy Ashcroft(born 1907) who win an Oscar(1985) by ¨Passage to India¨(David Lean).The film is a Gaumont British production by the great producer Michael Balcon.As almost always the screenwriter is Alma Reville,Hitchcock's wife.Besides his usual musical conductor Louis Levy and a dark black and white cinematography by his habitual cameraman Bernard Knowles. The motion picture is magnificently directed by the master of suspense.
This is the most important pursuit-film in the Hitchcock's British period as ¨North by Northwest¨(1959)is in American stage. The movie combines imagination,thriller,action and satirical comedy. Picture contains the usual elements argument in Hitchcock as the wrong guilty,pursuits,and the McGuffin,this time are the 39 steps. Elegant and charming Robert Donat(1905-1958)submitted to continuous escapes is top-notch.Delightful Madeleine Carroll(recent her acting for John Ford) as distinguished and elegant blonde is marvellous .The support casting is frankly excellent,John Laurie,Helen Haye and famed theatre actress Peggy Ashcroft(born 1907) who win an Oscar(1985) by ¨Passage to India¨(David Lean).The film is a Gaumont British production by the great producer Michael Balcon.As almost always the screenwriter is Alma Reville,Hitchcock's wife.Besides his usual musical conductor Louis Levy and a dark black and white cinematography by his habitual cameraman Bernard Knowles. The motion picture is magnificently directed by the master of suspense.