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39 Steps [Special Edition]

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Released: 1999-11-02

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39 Steps [Special Edition] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Gus McNaughton, Jerry Vernon, Miles Malleson, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Lucie Mannheim, John Laurie, Wylie Watson, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier, Jerry Verno, Peggy Simpson

Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock

Features:
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Gorgeous new transfer, with digitally restored image and sound
Audio essay by Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane
The complete 1937 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, performed by Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino
The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock, a Janus Films documentary detailing the director's British period
Excerpts from the original 1935 press book
Original production design drawings
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

39 Steps [Special Edition] DVD Details

Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono
Language:
English

Running Time: 86
Genre: Movie Mystery Suspense Thriller
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 037429135228
Product Code: CRRNTHI120DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1935
Studio: Criterion

39 Steps [Special Edition] DVD Summary This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work.

Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall performance by "Mr.

Memory" (Wylie Watson); in the midst of the show, shots ring out and Richard flees the theater.

Moments later, a terrified woman (Lucie Mannheim) begs Richard to help her; back at his room, she tells him that she's a British spy whose life has been threatened by international agents waiting outside.

Richard is certain that she's mad until she reappears at his door in the morning, near death with a knife in her back, a map in her hand, and muttering something about "39 Steps.

" Discovering that a group of thugs are indeed waiting outside, Richard slips away and takes the first train to the Scottish town on the dead woman's map.

Richard learns that he's now wanted by the police for murder, and he must find a way to clear his name.

He begins trying to do so with the help of a woman he meets en route, Pamela (Madeleine Carroll), who serves as his unwitting assistant, even after she tries to turn him in.

The 39 Steps was later remade in 1959 and 1978 -- both without Hitchcock's participation.