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The 39 Steps (1935)
Film Description From the moment he discovers a dead woman in his flat, Richard Hannay falls prey to a caper which teeters playfully on the edge of harm and hilarity. Featuring archetypal Hitchcockiana such as Hannay handcuffed to a blonde and Mr Memory, it also serves as the template for later works such as North by Northwest.
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DVD Extras Special edition. Restored. Biographies.
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Review by Dave Chesworth on 22nd April 2004 The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic. It's a superb film full of familiar faces playing memorable parts. The story is solid excitement and surprise. There's plenty of wonderful imagery such as the Scotish Highland scenery, The Forth Bridge, The Flying Scotsman, and Madeleine Carroll. Robert Donat is great in this Hicthcock film and excels in two other classics: Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939), and The Count of Monte Cristo (1934).
Review by John Davies on 13th February 2001 Comfortably the most exciting, entertaining and finest pre-War British film. View more reviews by John Davies
Review by anon on 12th April 2001 A classic British mystery and one of Hitchcocks best. The film provides both suspense and comedy as Donat is caught between the police and enemy agents.
Article - "Watching the Spies"
by Barry Forshaw
While espionage has long been one of the most reliably engrossing of literary genres, it’s simultaneously been a godsend to the cinema, where the dark psychological areas explored by the great spy novelists can find the perfect visual equivalents. As with these excel... View article in full
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Including: A Fish Called Wanda, A Matter of Life and Death , A Room With A View, Blow-up, Brazil, Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945), Brighton Rock, Caravaggio, Dont Look Now, Get Carter.
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BFI Top 100 British Films by MovieMail In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1000 people involved in UK film and television to create the BFI Top 100 British films made in the 20th century. Here is the result - each film here stands up to repeat viewings, and shows the incredible contribution Britain has made to cinema.
Let Joy be unconfined by Peter Williams It is no joy that one of the greatest films ever (ask Alfred Hitchcock) can't be included in this list - "Tunes of Glory". So we'll have to make do with second best. Come on Movemail - Sort 'em out!
Mirrors, echoes, precursors and influences by Gavin Oakes Every writer creates his own precursors, writes Borges. So too with filmmakers. These paired films are not remakes, but films that make me think of other films. Whether the film makers thought of them too I don't know.
Movie Weekness by Idris Babur Reliving a year full of inspired film watching.
My top ten by Gill Holmes films of all time
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North by Northwest
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