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BFI identifier
48028

Title

The 39 Steps (Original)

The Thirty Nine Steps (Help search)

Date
1935 (Release)

EIDR identifier

10.5240/9CAE-7D43-D0DE-4CCA-B4BE-V

Production country
United Kingdom
Production company
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Synopsis
Spy thriller. A Canadian living in London, Richard Hannay, meets a mysterious woman in a theatre and soon finds himself falsely accused of murder. He goes on the run to Scotland, where he tries to uncover a spy ring to save himself. (Synopsis)

Category

Fiction

Genre
Thriller
Subject
Espionage
Credits
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
a Gaumont-British picture: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Ltd presents: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
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Cast
Robert Donat (Richard Hannay)
Madeleine Carroll (Pamela)
Lucie Mannheim (Annabella/'Miss Smith')
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Collections
Film / Video
WMV - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Acetate - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
D3 - Video - Viewing
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Scripts / Documents
Document: report - Based on the novel by John Buchan - BBFC-1-4-375
Script - Original story: John Buchan - SCR-2116
Script - Original story: Buchan, John - SCR-2117
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-48028
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-48028
Medium pressbook and small press-sheet held. For example of publicity see PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY MATERIAL List (Gaumont-British).
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Posters / Designs
Poster: film - PD-21012
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Stills
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-bir
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-b94
Photograph: print - bfi-00o-b93
Photograph: print - Landscape - bfi-00o-b92
Photograph: print - Landscape - bfi-00o-b91
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Articles
Empire n227 May 2008 - Review
Empire n226 April 2008 - DVD Review
Cinema Journal v29 n2 Winter 1990
Classic Film Collector n50 Spring 1976
Cinema Quarterly v3 n4 Summer 1935
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Books
Hitchcock and the spy film - 2018
Hitchcock and the anxiety of authorship - 2015
Alfred Hitchcock - 2014
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Digital documents
BFI Southbank Programme Note: August / September 1999
available to view in BFI Reuben Library

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+The 39 Steps
Work - 48028 - 1935 (Release)

United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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  - D3
- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
- 39 STEPS THE (1935)
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  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
- THIRTY NINE STEPS
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  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
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- 39 Steps
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- The 39 Steps
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- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
- The 39 Steps
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  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
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  35mm - Dupe Negative - Combined
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  35mm - Dupe Negative - Combined
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  35mm - Dupe Negative - Combined
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- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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  35mm - Dupe Negative - Sound
- THIRTY NINE STEPS (1935)
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  35mm - Dupe Negative - Combined
- THIRTY NINE STEPS THE
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  35mm - Dupe Negative - Combined
- 39 Steps
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  35mm - Lavender Duplicating Positive - Combined
- The Thirty Nine Steps
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- The Thirty Nine Steps
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- The 39 Steps
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- The 39 Steps
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