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	The Thirty-Nine Steps -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novel by (Click link for more info and facts about John Buchan) John Buchan, first published in 1915.
		In addition to The 39 Steps, Hitchcock directed a number of movies based upon the idea of an "innocent man on the run," including (A deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged) Sabotage and (Click link for more info and facts about North by Northwest) North by Northwest.
		After some reasoning worthy of (A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle) Sherlock Holmes, and with the help of a knowledgeable coastguard, the group decide on a coastal town in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_thirty-nine_steps1.htm (1368 words)

	The 39 Steps (1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Memory: The 39 Steps is an organization of spies collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of...
		In the case of "The 39 Steps, Hichcock's film comes into the latter category, but a later (and in my opinion generally inferior) 1978 film of the same name can legitimately claim to be much more closely based on the book.
		Today "The 39 Steps" is seldom shown in movie theaters and, when a home video rather than the actual film is under consideration, attention needs to be given to the medium and technology with which it has been reproduced.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0026029 (1104 words)

	The 39 Steps (1935)
		39 is a suspense movie that resembles much of his later work but it stands well on its own and makes for a crisp and tense affair.
		The 39 Steps appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		This release of The 39 Steps isn't the worst DVD I've seen, but it's up there; from the extremely weak picture and sound to the almost non-existent supplements, the disc flops on virtually all levels.
	www.dvdmg.com /the39steps.shtml (1309 words)

	The 39 Steps
		In "The 39 Steps" Hitch perfectly captures the aura of swinging London and its music halls -- except that this time they have become the scenes for murder, mayhem and, one of Hitchcock's classic touches, the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.
		"The 39 Steps" was made available in a slew of bootlegged DVD transfers -- none of which is satisfactory, including the legitimate and expensive Criterion Edition.
		Granted "The 39 Steps" was a film in genuinely bad shape, before Criterion came along.
	www.mediascreen.com /t/39steps.htm (389 words)

	- - 39 STEPS RESTAURANT - - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		39 Steps has long been acknowledged as the champion of excellent seafood.
		A keen angler, John's love of fish extends to the kitchen where an array of fresh fish and seafood is presented on the flboard daily.
		Meat eaters are well served too with favourites such as Chicken 39 Steps - Breast of Chicken stuffed with apricots, basil and pine nuts, served with a mild curry cream sauce and the Steak Diane.
	www.39stepsrest.co.uk /food.html (300 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: The 39 Steps review
		The 39 Steps is one of Hitchcock's earliest international successes, and is positively astounding in its sophistication not only in terms of its story (which contains some amazingly sexual scenes), but also in terms of the camera work and editing.
		The film has been digitally restored, and is the best it has ever looked, although it is not as spectacular as Criterion's earlier Hitchcock transfer of The Lady Vanishes, a film that appears to be in much better condition even though it was made only three years later (1938).
		Compared to "Lady," "Steps" appears rather soft, but that is mainly due to age and condition of the original source materials.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/39steps.htm (510 words)

	The 39 Steps (1935)
		Thus The 39 Steps innovates in its use of sound and sense of structure.
		Ironically, given Hitchcock's statement that actors are cattle, The 39 Steps is buoyed by its cast.
		Yet The 39 Steps is also interesting as a document of the period and as a stepping-stone between the silent and sonic eras; some of the techniques and over-acting are painfully blunt.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/39_Steps.html (775 words)

	EUFS: The 39 Steps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The secret itself- plans for a new fighter plane - is of little importance and is what Hitchcock called a "MacGuffin" - a gimmick which is seemingly of vital importance to the characters, but which does not concern the viewer greatly.
		Above all it is a comedy thriller, but as with much of Hitchcock's work the humour has a hint of flness to it - by making the audience laugh he encourages them to reflect more deeply on an issue than if it were treated with the utmost seriousness.
		The Thirty-Nine Steps is a fun, engaging, and witty piece of classic cinema.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_39_steps.html (235 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: The 39 Steps [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With only a seemingly meaningless phrase ("the 39 steps"), a small Scottish town circled on a map, and a criminal mastermind identified by a missing finger as clues, quick-witted Hannay eludes police and spies alike as he works his way across the countryside to reveal the mystery and clear his name.
		In "The 39 Steps" Hitch' perfectly captures the aura of swinging London and its music halls - except that this time they have become the scenes for murder, mayhem and, one of Hitchcock's classic touches, the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.
		Virtually NOTHING is said about any of the particulars of "The 39 Steps" that isn't a parsing of the symbolism, the framing, that sort of thing.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302890918 (1234 words)

	Frank's Spoiled Movie Endings \| The 39 Steps (1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He opts to help her and hide her at his apartment, but they were followed and she was killed during the night -- but not before she tells him, vaguely, about the 39 Steps.
		Richard worries he would be a suspect in her death, he tries to break up the spy's secret ring to help prove his innocence.
		Someone asks what are the 39 Steps, and he begins answering ("The 39 Steps is an organization of spies, collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of...
	www.allaboutfrank.com /films/0/35-39steps.htm (280 words)

	Britmovie - The 39 Steps 1935
		The 39 Steps, based on the famous John Buchan novel of 1915, was freely adapted and changed by Hitchcock until very little of the original plot remained.
		Hitchcock rates The 39 Steps as one of his favourite films.
		In an interview with Peter Bow Danovitch, Hitchcock once commented, "What I liked about The 39 Steps were the sudden switches and the jumping from one situation to another with such rapidity.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/a_hitchcock/filmography/018.html (800 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - 39 Steps
		With the addition of Gagne and Paul they became 39 Steps (after the movie of the same name).
		They were soon dropped by RCA and then signed to Chrysalis in 1989, but Chrysalis wanted another Slaughter to add to their roster and 39 Steps took exception to the insult.
		"(All Roads Lead To) Babylon" was released as the single/video which received moderate rotation on MTV, but it seemed that 39 Steps aggro-rock had passed its prime with the onslaught of the grunge movement.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/T/39_Steps.html (588 words)

	Buchan, John. 1915. The Thirty-nine Steps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I realised that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out.
		The perfect combination of fine writing and suspense-filled plot makes Buchan’s the Thirty-Nine Steps an engaging novel of intrigue, which was adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935.
		Written in 1915, we follow protagonist Richard Hannay through England and the lowlands of Scotland as he eludes spies and keeps Europe from war.
	www.bartleby.com /149 (128 words)

	The 39 Steps: Criterion (1935)
		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.
		The 39 Steps is considered by many to be Alfred Hitchcock's best but I cannot completely agree.
		Its plotline would basically be redone in the highly energetic North by Northwest, which I enjoy more than The 39 Steps.
	www.dvdmg.com /39steps.shtml (1754 words)

	39 Steps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What is the 39 steps?" is the cry of Richard Hannay.
		The banter between Hannay and Pamela resembles dialog that might bring a comedy to life; yet, the tone of The 39 Steps remains serious.
		The 39 Steps is a first class DVD package.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/39_steps.htm (737 words)

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		When I asked for a night's lodging she said I was welcome to the "bed in the loft," and very soon she set before me a hearty meal of ham and eggs, scones, and thick sweet milk.
		At the darkening her man came in from the hills, a lean giant, who in one step covered as much ground as three paces of ordinary mortals.
		Half-way down was the Post Office, and on the steps of it stood the post- mistress and a policeman hard at work conning a telegram.
	eserver.org /fiction/39-steps.txt (27122 words)

	The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
		The 39 Steps (1935) is one of the earlier Alfred Hitchcock British spy-chase suspense-thrillers from a vintage period, his 18th film.
		The Thirty-Nine Steps, a contrived title, is Hitchcock's first film with a classic theme that he modeled repeatedly for the remainder of his career.
		He learns that she is a secret "agent" being pursued by two men sent to follow and kill her [agents of the 39 Steps (the trademark Hitchcock MacGuffin) - it refers to the code name for the organization of enemy spies and - the British secrets that they carry].
	www.filmsite.org /thirt.html (1650 words)

	The Criterion Collection: 39 Steps, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This DVD provides a newly restored transfer, new critical audio commentary on the film, and supplemental material detailing the moment The 39 Steps was released.
		Fresh, funny, and filled with typically Hitchcockian suspense, The 39 Steps fully demonstrates the director’s unshaken status as a cinematic master.
		Death and exposure to being viewed are among the consequences, or risks, that human beings (characters, actors) face in his universe.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=56&eid=82§ion=essay (373 words)

	The 39 steps
		He has found out, for example, that even as filming of The 39 steps (1935) began, the script was unfinished and there was speculation that the film's climax might take place on Big Ben rather than at the London Palladium (36).
		He suggests that The 39 steps is about raising the consciousness of 1930s audiences in yet another way than the class one, namely, to the new threat from fascism.
		Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was in the 1930s hugely fashionable, and The 39 steps seems to me the film in which Hitchcock first consciously took upon himself the task of "shaking up" and invigorating his audiences, whom he characterised as "sluggish and jellified".
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev_16/KMbr16a.html (2525 words)

	A TANGLED WEB: 39 STEPS
		When the IRA murdered Robert McCartney, it must have been quite shell-shocked to suddenly find that it was being held to account for that despicable deed.
		After all, as the Belfast Telegraph details here, 39 people have been murdered by the IRA since it went on cease-fire.
		39 lives have been lost, 39 families devastated.
	atangledweb.typepad.com /weblog/2005/03/39_steps.html (475 words)

	Robert Donat @ Classic Movie Favorites - Biography
		In the early 1930's he became immediately popular after signing a contract with Alexander Corda and appearing as Thomas Culpepper in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) which was only his third film.
		He soon after played Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) and then was Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps (1935) for Alfred Hitchcock.
		The Thirty Nine Steps is considered a Hitchcock classic and Donat excelled in the part playing a man falsely accused of murder handcuffed to lovely Madeline Carroll.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /donat/bio.html (420 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: The 39 Steps [1935] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I just watched The 39 Steps again to celebrate Hitchcock's birthday, and was amazed all over again.
		This is the wrong man theme at its most glorious and fruitful as Hannay accused of a murder he didn't commit flees the police and pursues the secret of the thirtynine steps.
		Every scene is memorable from the opening music hall chaos through the erotic/comic scene of Pamela (Madeleine Carroll) removing her stockings whilst handcuffed to Hannay (Donat) to the memory man finale.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CK5Q (723 words)

	WYPlayhouse: The 39 Steps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When a young woman is murdered in his home, Richard Hannay becomes an innocent man on the run, embroiled in a sinister conspiracy.
		But with the police and the woman’s killers on his trail and his photo in every national newspaper, it’s a race against time to unravel the mystery of the 39 Steps and prove his innocence.
		The 39 Steps designer, Peter McKintosh, takes time out from his busy schedule to answer a few questions about recreating some of the films most famous scenes for the Playhouse's brand new show.
	www.wyplayhouse.com /events/event_details.asp?event_ID=440 (325 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: The 39 Steps [1935] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A high point of Hitchcock's pre-Hollywood career, 1935's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first and best of three film versions of John Buchan's rather stiff novel.
		The 39 Steps is something special and deserves to be in the BFi's greatest list.
		The 39 Steps is the most entertaining, fun and thrilling film I have ever witnessed.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AY13 (1398 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The 39 Steps: The Criterion Collection
		While Alfred Hitchcock is best-known for his American films, which had generous budgets, big Hollywood stars, and a seasoned director behind the camera, serious Hitch aficionados know that his British career — stretching roughly from 1922 to 1939 — contains a treasure trove of small cinematic gems.
		All of these films have their merits (North By Northwest is certainly one of Hitch's best flicks ever), but The 39 Steps is the crown jewel of his British period.
		Hitchcock" to you), The 39 Steps is easily a top-ten Hitch-flick as well as a masterpiece of economy, spinning its harried plot in a variety of directions before it arrives at a breathless conclusion, and all in a mere 86 minutes.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/00/39stepscriterion.q.shtml (373 words)

	Full Coverage: People in the News
		Screenwriter Robert Towne has struck a deal to develop a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "The 39 Steps." The Hollywood veteran, who won an Oscar for 1974's "Chinatown" and was nominated for...
		Screenwriter Robert Towne has struck a deal to develop a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "The 39 Steps." Towne, who wrote "Chinatown" and "Mission: Impossible 3," will write and direct the...
		Robert Towne has struck a deal to develop a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "The 39 Steps," Daily Variety reported on its Web site Thursday.
	www.topix.net /movies/the-39-steps?full=408949 (187 words)

	The 39 Steps (1935 b 86') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She hears the two men talk, and the innkeeper's wife protects the couple, making the men leave.
		Pamela tells Hannay she heard the truth and about the 39 steps and picking up a man at the Palladium.
		Memory says the 39 steps is an organization of spies, and he is shot.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1935/39Steps.html (529 words)

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		1) Step one in the great enterprise of a new and preferable you in the house of fiction is: Mean less.
		The story is shirts and jackets, ribbons, the perfumes of the closet, details, bits of persuasion, rubber gunk underfoot, attitudes, hints, suggestions-everything you can attach to this hanger.
		20) Obviously, these carefully hewn 39 steps must be adapted to your way of working.
	www.mississippireview.com /1995/mr39step.html (1028 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: 39 Steps [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps firmly established the director's reputation beyond the boundaries of the British isles, but it did far more than that: it was also the film where Hitchcock's reach and grasp as a filmmaker began growing by leaps and bounds.
		In a time when producers and studios still occupied a place of cultural inferiority (even in their own minds) to the authors and publishers of the printed word, this was no small achievement, especially considering that it was done well and, thus, justified itself.
		So, in his own way, working within the thriller genre in The 39 Steps, Hitchcock helped open the way for virtually every major director who came after him.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005BI94 (289 words)

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