And he spends the night at a country inn handcuffed to a beautiful blonde who doesn’t quite trust him. He is interviewed by an unreliable sheriff and seized by police who may not be police. Next Hannay is shot by an aristocratic villain with a finger missing – but the bullet is stopped by a hymnbook. 'It seems to be the wrong garden, all right.’ Or should it be up? I never can remember.' 'I've been guilty of leading you down the garden path. He jumps off at the Forth Bridge, stays the night with a crofter and is chased across the moors by a police gyrocopter. Hannay escapes disguised as a milkman, hides away on the Flying Scotsman and kisses a fellow passenger to evade arrest. ‘There’s a dangerous conspiracy against this island and we’re the only ones who can stop it.’īut the mysterious woman dies with a knife in her back, clutching a map of the Highlands. It’s gripping stuff.Ī gun goes off in a music hall and an alluring secret agent seeks sanctuary in Hannay’s flat on Portland Place. Robert Donat stars as Richard Hannay, a Canadian visitor to London who becomes a murder suspect, goes on the run and endeavours to prevent a spy ring from stealing British military secrets. ‘ The 39 Steps’ is a classic 1935 British thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on a novel by John Buchan.
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