The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)
The Thirty-Nine Steps | |
Don Sharp | |
Norfolk International Pictures and The Rank Organisation | |
102 minutes |
Synopsis
Based on the same book as the Hitchcock film The 39 Steps (1935).
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government... (IMDB)
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Directed by:
Starring:
- Robert Powell — Richard Hannay
- David Warner — Sir Edmund Appleton
- Eric Porter — Chief Supt Lomas
- Karen Dotrice — Alex Mackenzie
- John Mills — Scudder
- George Baker — Sir Walter Bullivant
- Ronald Pickup — Bayliss
- Donald Pickering — Marshall
- Timothy West — Porton
- Miles Anderson — David Hamilton
- Andrew Keir — Lord R
- Robert Flemyng — Magistrate
- William Squire — Harkness
- Paul McDowell — McLean
- David Collings — Tillotson
Produced by:
- Frank Bevis — associate producer
- James Kenelm Clarke — executive producer
- Greg Smith — producer
Written by:
- John Buchan — novel
- Michael Robson
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Edited by:
Music by: