The 39 Steps

Credits

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
John Hay Beith, Alma Reville, Charles Bennett, John Buchan
Cast
Alfred Hitchcock, Madeleine Carroll, John Laurie, Peggy Ashcroft, Lucie Mannheim, Robert Donat, Charles Bennett, Helen Haye, Frederick Piper, Godfrey Tearle, Jerry Verno
Produced by
Michael Balcon
Cinematography
Bernard Knowles
Music
Charles Williams
Edited by
Derek Twist
Complete catalog record
Features Alfred Hitchcock’s first man on the run thriller. Contains breathtaking action and mischievous humor to tell the story of an innocent man pursued by the police and murderous spies. 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 accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring. Taglines: “Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him”, “The MAN who put the MAN in roMANce.”, “Fated to be Mated with the One Man She Hated.”

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, length, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q501105 ↗ — creator, color, country, genre, credits