The 39 Steps
British Cinema • Classics, Mystery, Thriller
In Alfred Hitchcock’s brilliant spy thriller, Richard Hannay has a knack for ending up with beautiful women. The first one asks him if she can come up to his apartment. It turns out she is a British secret agent being hunted by international agents working for a villainous man described only as having the end of his pinky finger missing. The agents are under orders to stop her from delivering a secret code to an agent in Scotland. When he meets beautiful Pamela (Madeleine Carroll) trying to escape from a sheriff, they are handcuffed together and are “forced” to spend the night together.
In Alfred Hitchcock’s brilliant spy thriller, Richard Hannay has a knack for ending up with beautiful women. The first one asks him if she can come up to his apartment. It turns out she is a British secret agent being hunted by international agents working for a villainous man described only as having the end of his pinky finger missing. The agents are under orders to stop her from delivering a secret code to an agent in Scotland. When he meets beautiful Pamela (Madeleine Carroll) trying to escape from a sheriff, they are handcuffed together and are “forced” to spend the night together.
DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK
UNITED KINGDOM | 1935 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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