39 Steps, The: The Criterion Collection  /  DVD-Video
Standard 1.33:1 B&W  /  Production Year: 1935  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 1 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend All-Time Sales Rank: 2711 Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis The best known of Hitchcock's British films, this civilized thriller follows the escapades of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors - a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued. This classic Hitchcock "wrong man" thriller includes a stop in John Laurie's crofter's cottage, a political meeting where Hannay improvises a speech without knowing who or what he's supporting, and a period where he's handcuffed to the resentful heroine (Madeleine Carroll). Adapted from John Buchan's novel, The 39 Steps encapsulates themes that anticipate Hitchcock's biggest American thrillers (especially North By Northwest), and is a standout among his early works. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Robert Donat  • Peggy Ashcroft  • Madeleine Carroll  • Helen Haye  • Lucie Mannheim  • Godfrey Tearle  • John Laurie  • Wylie Watson  • Frank Cellier Directors:  • Alfred Hitchcock Product Information Features: Audio essay by Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane The Complete 1937 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, performed by Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock, a Janus Films documentary detailing the director's British period Excerpts from the original 1935 press book Original production design drawings Video: Standard 1.33:1 B&W Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: English Studio: Criterion Production Year: 1935 Release Date: 11/2/1999 Length: 86 mins Rating: NR Chapters: 12 Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: THI120 UPC Code: 037429135228 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Special Editions, Art House, Classics, Criterion Collection Studios: Criterion Reviews Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review THE 39 STEPS (CRITERION) - 3 out of 5  (10/1/2002) With the restoration of his later American color films, usually with James Stewart, getting all the attention, Alfred Hitchcock's early British works have been getting lost in the shuffle lately. Criterion has added his David O. Selznick era works (NOTORIOUS, SPELLBOUND, REBECCA) to their series recently, but they also have a few of his British works on DVD. After THE LADY VANISHES (1938, see my review elsewhere on this site), they issued this special edition of THE 39 STEPS (1935), a film   more >>