
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith, who is running away from secret agents. He agrees to hide her in his flat, but she is murdered during the night. Fearing that he could be accused of the murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.... (Full plot summary below)
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Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith, who is running away from secret agents. He agrees to hide her in his flat, but she is murdered during the night. Fearing that he could be accused of the murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.
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| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaO excesso de coincidências leva o roteiro a soar maniqueísta (bem como a "tensão sexual" entre Donat e Carroll), mas a direção de Hitchcock, como sempre, salva o filme. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksThe 39 Steps (1935) is one of the earlier Alfred Hitchcock British spy-chase suspense-thrillers from a vintage period |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxThe "innocent man" notion has been copied and recopied for decades, but few have the minerals to stand with this one. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanIn Hitchcock's hands, however, this well-known espionage adventure provided the basis for a new sort of thriller and a new sort of comedy. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThe 39 Steps is sexy, exciting, unexpectedly moving (thanks to Peggy Ashcroft's portrayal of a lonely woman married to a brutish farmer), and wholly unpredictable, with an ending that nicely loops back to the start. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloClassic Hitchcock suspense, some drinking and smoking. |
| Radio TimesAndrew CollinsAlfred Hitchcock brings John Buchan's novel to the screen with characteristic wit and verve. |
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherThe 39 Steps is a masterclass in propulsive narrative cinema that even today's so-called blockbuster auteurs should study. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThe 39 Steps is light, urbane, sexy as hell, and as so much of Hitchcock was so often, right about everything. |
| Chicago TribuneRobert K. ElderThe movie with which Hitchcock became Hitchcock. |