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The 39 Steps

By Matt Levine March 30, 2023 March 30, 2023 The Hitchcock Film Festival

A black and white image of Pamela (actress Madeleine Carroll), a blonde white woman, sitting on a bed next to Richard Hannay (actor Robert Donat), a dark-haired white man with a mustache. Pamela tries to open the handcuff that ties her hand to Hannay’s while he is asleep.

|Courtney Kowalke| The 39 Steps is a movie with an interesting cast of characters, especially compared to the book Hitchcock used for inspiration. The film is based off the similarly-named The Thirty-Nine Steps by Scotsman John Buchan (the first Baron Tweedsmuir if you’re fancy). Continue reading

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The 39 Steps

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