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	scarecrowreview
		In his 1935 film of John Buchan's THE 39 STEPS Hitchcock (with Charles Bennett, Alma Reville and Ian Hay) virtually threw away the book and used his imagination.
		What gives the film its powerful sense of menacing horror is its contrast between the normal and the bizarre; but, as in the book, even what is normal is open to question.
		Without attempting to represent that in exact visual terms, the film settles for a flurry of shots which put the audience into a suitably jumpy state for what it to come.
	www.nzvideos.org /scarecrowreview.html (1133 words)

	1935 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock film and starring Robert Donat
		See the 1935 films category below for more.
		Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1935_in_film (129 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.
		Jordan, and the innkeepers who encourage romance.] The film's two MacGuffins are the nature of the 39 Steps and the smuggling of secret plans out of the country - the mystery of which is only fully revealed in the final scene.
		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 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).
		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".
		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.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev_16/KMbr16a.html (2525 words)

	Robert Donat @ Classic Movie Favorites - Biography
		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.
		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.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /donat/bio.html (420 words)

	Britmovie - The 39 Steps 1935
		Hitchcock rates The 39 Steps as one of his favourite films.
		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.
		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)

	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)

	1935 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock film and starring Robert Donat
		Gold Diggers of 1935, a Busby Berkeley musical starring Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1935_in_film (125 words)

	Spy film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1937) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
		Spy films also enjoyed something of a revival in the late 1990s, although these were often action films with espionage elements, or comedies like Austin Powers.
		The peak of popularity of the spy film is often considered to be the 1960s when Cold War fears meshed with a desire by audiences to see exciting and suspenseful films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spy_film (592 words)

	A history of Scottish Film (part two)
		Although set largely in Scotland, Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) shot mainly in Lime Grove Studios in London, where the sheep ate the carefully-arranged heather.
		Few feature films were made in Scotland and the only way a Scot could make a career for him or herself in movies was to take the train down to London or the boat across the Atlantic.
		Hollywood dominated the movie industry, but in Britain its films were supplemented by those from studios in the south of England, so Scotland was doubly dominated by two great powers with whom it shared a common language.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /scots/briefhistory2.shtml (592 words)

	AMCTV.com - Alfred Hitchcock biography
		His first directing effort, The Pleasure Garden (1925) was shot in Munich and, like many of Hitchcock's early films including The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938), it was shot outside the Hollywood system.
		In his very first sound film, 1929's film Blackmail, Hitchcock uses the sound to advance the story--emphasizing a young woman's anxiety by gradually distorting all but one word-"knife"-of a neighbor's dialogue in the morning after the killing.
		Hitchcock's films, from Rear Window (1954) and North By Northwest (1959) to Psycho (1960) and the recently restored Vertigo (1958), form a body of work which is a rare treasure: not only worth watching for their craftsmanship, but as eminently watchable films.
	www.amctv.com /article?CID=1328-1--0-4-EST (354 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of a Film Culture
		Most of the films from this period deal directly with the deteriorating political climate in Europe by exploring various forms of international intrigue, and it is probably The 39 Steps (1935), a spy tale based on an updating of a John Buchan pre-war novel, that best sums up this period of his career.
		He helped film to make the transition from silent to sound, encouraged the eclipse of black and white films by color, and directed films which were both accessible to the general movie-going public and of sufficient depth to attract film scholars and critics.
		Against the spy-story background in the film Hitchcock created a sort of screwball comedy by pitting the characters played by Robert Donat and Madeline Carroll against each other in a battle of the sexes, a tension intensified because for a period of the film they are actually handcuffed together.
	www.bonus.com /contour/History_Mystery/http@@/www.mysterynet.com/hitchcock/silet.shtml (1450 words)

	Sir Michael Elias Balcon (1896-1977), Film producer
		Through Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont-British and Ealing Studios Balcon was responsible for a wide range of classic British films including The 39 Steps (1935), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Cruel Sea (1952).
		The online database contains information on 84,967 works, 44,595 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp05048 (89 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
		Hitchcock had two successful television series (1955–62 and 1963–65) and was one of the best known directors of his time, often appearing in humorous cameo appearances in his own films.
		Hitchcock's style is so distinctive that any filmmaker working in the suspense genre invariably risks comparison to him.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HitchcocA.html (89 words)

	Robert Donat
		He played the leads in some of Britain's finest films of the 30s and early 40s, ranging from Hitchcock's adventurous THE 39 STEPS (1935) to René Clair's comedy-fantasy THE GHOST GOES WEST (1936), in which he played the title role.
		In addition to his film performances, Donat left the imprint of his great voice in a memorable series of poetry recordings.
		He was seriously ill during the production of his last film, THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS (1958), and was barely able to complete his role with the aid of oxygen tanks.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/donat_r.htm (89 words)

	Robert Donat
		He played the leads in some of Britain's finest films of the 30s and early 40s, ranging from Hitchcock's adventurous THE 39 STEPS (1935) to René Clair's comedy-fantasy THE GHOST GOES WEST (1936), in which he played the title role.
		In addition to his film performances, Donat left the imprint of his great voice in a memorable series of poetry recordings.
		He was seriously ill during the production of his last film, THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS (1958), and was barely able to complete his role with the aid of oxygen tanks.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/donat_r.htm (89 words)

	1935 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock film and starring Robert Donat
		See the 1935 films category below for more.
		Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1935_in_film (89 words)

	Amazon.com: Wrong Men & Notorious Women - Five Hitchcock Thrillers 1935-1946 (The 39 Steps / The Lady Vanishes / Rebecca / Spellbound / Notorious) - Criterion Collection: DVD
		By 1935 Hitch already had 19 films under his belt, however for the most part, his earlier work (The 1920s films THE LODGER, THE RING, BLACKMAIL and MURDER in 1930) was more experimentation that art, but THE 39 STEPS was the landmark film that put Hitch on the map.
		This impressive DVD box set showcases some of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest work in the 1930s and 40s, where the young director was not only breathing new life into Hollywood, but also displaying his enthusiasm for macabre tales of murder and mystery.
		Watching it on TV late one night, I was enthralled at how expertly-crafted this little thriller was, and its great to see this classic on DVD.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008OM70?v=glance (2856 words)

	1935 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock film and starring Robert Donat
		See the 1935 films category below for more.
		Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1935_in_film (2856 words)

	1935 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock film and starring Robert Donat
		See the 1935 films category below for more.
		Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1935_in_film (129 words)

	Foreign Correspondent (1940)
		It was his second American film (and hired out by David O. Selznick to independent producer Walter Wanger), one that closely resembles his earlier British films: The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1937).
		The film is best remembered for a number of memorable scenes, including a political assassination in the rain on the steps of the Amsterdam Town Hall, and a trans-Atlantic clipper plane crash.
		(1940) is another of director Alfred Hitchcock's spy thrillers.
	www.filmsite.org /fore.html (129 words)

	BFI Top 100 British films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest film chosen was from 1935 (The 39 Steps), with only two other 1930s films featuring in the list.
		After 1935, 1974–78 was the only period of more than a year from which no films were chosen.
		In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1000 people from the world of UK film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BFI_Top_100_British_films (213 words)

	North By Northwest (1959)
		The film's themes include many plot devices and elements typical of Hitchcock films (especially The 39 Steps (1935) and Saboteur (1942)) - predominantly the themes of mistaken identity for the innocent, ordinary, 'Wrong Man' hero.
		And Hitchcock also chose Oscar-winning Eva Marie Saint as the blonde heroine (to the studio's and Grant's surprise) - one of many such female characters in his film repertoire.
		One of the film's posters advertised: "Only Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock ever gave you so much suspense in so many directions." The film paired debonair Cary Grant with director Hitchcock for the fourth and last time: their earlier collaborations were in Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), and To Catch a Thief (1955).
	www.filmsite.org /nort.html (2950 words)

	North by Northwest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In fact, North by Northwest can be seen as the last and best in a long line of "wrong man" films that Hitchcock made according to the pattern he established in The 39 Steps (1935).
		There are similarities between this movie and Hitchcock's earlier film Saboteur (1942), whose final scene on top of the Statue of Liberty foreshadows the Mount Rushmore scene in the later film.
		Eventually they settled on the U.N. murder for the opening and the chase across Mount Rushmore for the climax.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_by_Northwest (1393 words)

	Madeleine Carroll Biography 1926 - 1945
		Madeleine Carroll's place in film history is assured by her memorable performance in Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" (1935) which made both Hitchock and herself international celebrities.
		Professor Carroll ordered her out of the house (they were reconciled only after her first film) and to support herself she acquired a job as French instructor at a girls' school in Hove (near Brighton).
		Madeleine proved a very bright student, and had been enrolled at the University of Birmingham with the intention of fulfilling her father's choice of her profession as a teacher of French.
	www.madeleinecarroll.com /star_biography_1926_1945.htm (1968 words)

	John Laurie Biography (1897-1980)
		Laurie spent most of the next five decades playing surly, snappish types: the taciturn farmer who betrays fugitive Robert Donat in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), the repugnant Blind Pew in Disney's Treasure Island (1950) et.
		One of John Laurie's few starring assignments was in the 1935 film Edge of the World, set on the remote Shetland isle of Foula; 40 years later, a frail-looking Laurie was one of the participants in director Michael Powell's "reunion" documentary Return to the Edge of the World (1978).
		Both portrayed the Mahdi, scourge of General "Chinese" Gordon: Laurie essayed the part in The Four Feathers (1939), while Olivier played the role in Khartoum (1965).
	www.leninimports.com /john_laurie.html (214 words)

	Sir Michael Elias Balcon (1896-1977), Film producer
		Through Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont-British and Ealing Studios Balcon was responsible for a wide range of classic British films including The 39 Steps (1935), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Cruel Sea (1952).
		The online database contains information on 64,720 works, 43,628 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp05048 (89 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
		mystery -> Types of Mysteries Many authors incorporate the conventions of the mystery into the novel, producing works that are warm, witty, often erudite, and filled with interesting characters and atmosphere.
		She taught English at the Univ. of Detroit and the Univ. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and has been affiliated with Princeton Univ. since 1978.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Thriller+(disambiguation) (89 words)

	Famous Renards in History
		Charles Hubert Renard (my Grandfather 1880 -1958) - Composer - Appeared as the conductor in the original 1935 film 'The 39 Steps' (with Robert Donat), composed music for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
		Simon Renard (16th century) - the Holy Roman Emperor's Ambassador to the court of King Philip II of Spain in 1554.
		At the outset of his career with the Ballets Russes, the Russian Igor Stravinsky spent more and more time outside Russia, and with the advent of World War I he lived in Switzerland.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /david.renard/famous.htm (480 words)

	Date Thu, 25 Mar 1993 070630 GMT Subject The Hitchcock Information File Since there's been
		THE 39 STEPS (1935): Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie.
		FRENZY (1972): In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three minutes into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
		Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner.
	www.skepticfiles.org /en001/hitchcok.htm (480 words)

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