{"id":35485,"date":"2024-03-24T06:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35485"},"modified":"2024-03-24T06:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T10:07:56","slug":"the-39-steps-1935-directed-by-alfred-hitchcock-starring-robert-donat-madeline-carroll-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35485","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The 39 Steps&#8221; (1935) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Robert Donat &#038; Madeline Carroll \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032424zview_39steps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The 39 Steps <\/strong><\/em>(1935)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Charles Bennett, Ian Hay <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3x73GJD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS <\/strong><\/a>by<strong> John Buchan<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll <\/strong>and <strong>Alfred Hitchcock.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>HANDCUFFED TO THE GIRL WHO DOUBLE CROSSED HIM!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Hannay (Donat) is watching an act called Mr. Memory in a crowded London theater.\u00a0 When a gunshot goes off in the crowd, the audience stampedes for the exits.\u00a0 Hannay is surprised when a woman he doesn&#8217;t know says she&#8217;s frightened and asks to leave with him.\u00a0 They end up in Hannay&#8217;s apartment where the woman claims to be a government agent.\u00a0 She admits to firing the shots to escape enemy spies who had found her.\u00a0 She claims to have information that is vital to the nation&#8217;s security.\u00a0 Hannay isn&#8217;t sure what to believe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later that night the woman bursts into Hannay&#8217;s bedroom.\u00a0 She has been stabbed.\u00a0 As she dies she warns Hannay he needs to escape.\u00a0 In her hand is a map with with a building named &#8220;Alt-na-Shellach&#8221; circled.\u00a0 Soon Hannay finds himself on the run.\u00a0 The police think he killed the woman and the enemy agents know he has information to bring them down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Hitchcock claimed that <em>The 39 Steps<\/em> was one of his favorite movies that he directed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hitchcock&#8217;s cameo comes around the 7 minute mark.\u00a0 He is the man walking by the bus who throws litter to the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Hannay shows ingenuity in escaping from his apartment (disguised as a milk man) and later at a political rally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hannay (Donat) and Pamela (Carroll) spend several scenes on the run while handcuffed to each other.\u00a0 In a rehearsal Hitchcock had them handcuffed together for several hours since he had lost the key.\u00a0 In reality, he hadn&#8217;t lost the key, but wanted them to get used to being joined by the cuffs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The 39 Steps <\/strong><\/em>(1935) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032424zview_39steps2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 39 Steps (1935) Director: \u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay based on THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by John Buchan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35490,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions\/35490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}