The 39 Steps
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps. From TMDB
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60 of 193 · most liked firstActor Robert Donat died on this day 1958, aged 53. Born as Friedrich Robert Donat in Withington, Manchester. Best remembered as Richard Hannay in Alfred Hitchcock’s film 'The 39 Steps' and Mr Chips, the ageing schoolmaster in 'Goodbye Mr Chips'; for the latter he won an Oscar.
unlabelledView post →Actor Robert Donat was born as Friedrich Robert Donat in Withington, Manchester, on this day 1905. Best remembered for playing Richard Hannay in Alfred Hitchcock’s film 'The 39 Steps' and Mr Chips, the ageing schoolmaster in 'Goodbye Mr Chips'; for the latter he won an Oscar.
unlabelledView post →I've just rewatched Eye of the Needle. Only in 1981 could a British film have featured such a 'changing of the guard' cast of bit-player faces ... Bill Fraser and Bill Nighy ... Sam Kydd and Rik Mayall ... And be equally influenced by The 39 Steps and Halloween.
unlabelledView post →Actor Robert Donat died #OTD 1958, aged 53. Born as Friedrich Robert Donat in Withington, Manchester. Best remembered for playing Richard Hannay in Alfred Hitchcock’s film 'The 39 Steps' and Mr Chips, the ageing schoolmaster in 'Goodbye Mr Chips'; for the latter he won an Oscar.
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s movie selection is “The 39 Steps” (1935). A Canadian civilian in London becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies from stealing British military secrets. Alfred Hitchcock directs (lets watch for his cameo)
unlabelledView post →Actor Robert Donat was born as Friedrich Robert Donat in Withington, Manchester, #OTD 1905. Best remembered for playing Richard Hannay in Alfred Hitchcock’s film 'The 39 Steps' and Mr Chips, the ageing schoolmaster in 'Goodbye Mr Chips'; for the latter he won an Oscar.
unlabelledView post →Legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas today, at the Falls of Dochart, 66 years after his father, Ralph, filmed a part of The 39 Steps here.
unlabelledView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 13 August 1899. Film director Alfred Hitchcock, known as the “Master of Suspense”, was born in Leytonstone, Essex. His films include: Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, Marnie, The 39 Steps, Frenzy, Rope, The Birds and many more.
unlabelledView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 13 August 1899. Film director Alfred Hitchcock, known as the Master of Suspense, was born in Leytonstone, Essex. His films include Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, Marnie, The 39 Steps, Frenzy, Rope, The Birds and many more.
unlabelledView post →John Buchan (with scenes from the Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps", adapted from the Buchan novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →6/6/35: Hitchcock's The 39 Steps Peak Hitch for us: midcenturycinema.org/2016/12/02/n... More: @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/the-39-steps... @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo... @dcairns.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
unlabelledView post →Now watching: ‘The 39 Steps’, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1935. It strikes me this time that its depiction of a London music hall in full raucous flow has documentary value. 🎥🎬
unlabelledView post →Since I was a kid watching the film The 39 Steps I’ve wanted to cross this bridge, not sure why I waited so long to actually do it 😆 p.s. apologies for the rubbish thru the train window piccy 🙄 #forthrailbridge
unlabelledView post →John Buchan (with scenes from the Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps", adapted from the Buchan novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →The 39 Steps is the most tedious film I've ever seen about addiction recovery
unlabelledView post →I think my roommate was annoyed at the explanation that Mr. Memory reveals the 39 Steps purely as the result of a compulsion. We both agree that the film is very funny
unlabelledView post →If you enjoyed Emeric Pressburger's THE GLASS PEARLS, Sally Carson's CROKED CROSS or Anna Seghers' TRANSIT, chances are you'll like THE PASSENGER. It would make a great film, very much in the vein of classic Hitchcock thrillers such as THE LADY VANISHES, NOTORIOUS & THE 39 STEPS! #BookSky #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching THE 39 STEPS (1935). Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll. #19 on my Hitchcock rewatch is an oldie but a goodie! Early wrong-man spy story that would be Hitch's specialty with Donat stumbling into conspiracy & romance. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 56
unlabelledView post →The Kenneth More version of The 39 Steps is just starting on Talking Pictures TV. Utterly superfluous remake of the Hitchcock film but enjoyable nonetheless.
unlabelledView post →Back in 1978, my next door neighbor at college was taking a film history course. During Hitchcock week, he snuck me in to #TheManWhoKnewTooMuch 1934 and The 39 Steps (1935). On 16 mm film projector! Started my love of classic film. Thanks again, John! #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →John Buchan (with scenes from the Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps", adapted from the Buchan novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Just watched #Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps for the first time. I’m totally in love with Madeleine Carroll, his first ice blonde from whom Kim, Grace, Eva Marie and Tippi sprang. As old as that film is (90 years in 2025) it’s still fresh. More of a fan of Robert Donat now also. #tcmparty #Films
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1881 Gus McNaughton: English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947. In films, McNaughton was often cast as the "fast-talking sidekick," and he appeared twice for director Alfred Hitchcock in both Murder! (1930) and The 39 Steps (1935).
unlabelledView post →18 March 1905 – 1958 Robert Donat, 53, (Brain Tumour), English actor Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) * The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 only US film) * #Hitchcock The 39 Steps * Knight Without Armour * Goodbye, Mr Chips (Oscar) * The Winslow Boy * The Magic Box * Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
unlabelledView post →Settling in for some Hitchcock with a nice Rioja to warm the cockles in this deep freeze. THE 39 STEPS for the first time! I know. Bad classic movie fan. Bad Chino. #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1922 Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft: nglish actress whose career spanned more than six decades. Appeared rarely in film, her first being The Wandering Jew (1933). Won an Oscar for A Passage to India (1984),her last TV film was She's Been Away (1989). Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935).
unlabelledView post →It's my birthday today. These are my favourite things. Interested to know yours. Book: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. Film: The 39 Steps (Hitchcock version). Song: it's too difficult to pick just one OK Thunder Road.
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1921 Barbara Shotter: actress, known for Tons of Money (1954), Film Fanfare (1956) and The 39 Steps (1959).
unlabelledView post →Oh. The 39 Steps is such an excellent film.
unlabelledView post →THE 39 STEPS (1935) British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock Peggy Ashcroft plays Margaret, the crofter’s lonely, perceptive wife. When Robert Donat’s Hannay arrives at her remote countryside cottage in Scotland, she instantly recognizes both his innocence and the danger he’s in
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1874 Helen Haye: British stage and film actress. Known for The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940), Alfred Hitchcock's The Skin Game (1931) and The 39 Steps (1935). She taught for many years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, her prize pupils including John Gielgud and Charles Laughton.
unlabelledView post →What‘s your Hitchcock top 5? 1. North by Northwest 2. Young and Innocent 3. The 39 Steps 4. The Lady Vanishes 5. Frenzy These are the films I've seen and enjoyed the most. But there is no movie by the master without value. #Hitchcock was a titan who will still be appreciated 100 years from now…
unlabelledView post →After watching Kind Hearts and Coronets for the first time yesterday, tried The 39 Steps today. Noped out. My tolerance for Hitchcock varies. But KHaC was fun! If a bit slow. (I didn't recognize Alec Guinness until he put on the old age makeup.)
unlabelledView post →I feel guilty in These Times but actually gf and I had a nice day. We always try to have a Silly Movie Sunday where we binge classic movies and since last night we watched four Hitchcock films: The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, Rear Window, and Spellbound. Every one of them an unimpeachable banger.
unlabelledView post →I'm feeling full of salt and vinegar: Hitchcock's film of THE 39 STEPS is superior to John Buchan's novel in every meaningful way. I'll take you all on, one at a time or all in a bunch!
unlabelledView post →Remembering sadly forgotten, Oscar-winning British classic film actor Robert Donat on his 121st birthday, acclaimed for roles in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII, THE 39 STEPS, THE CITADEL, GOODBYE MR. CHIPS, THE WINSLOW BOY, THE MAGIC BOX, and THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS, among others.
unlabelledView post →Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock, 1940, Film) Hitchcock made essentially the same movie with different beats three different times and the first time he did it (The 39 Steps) is still the best.
unlabelledView post →Seven directors of your choice for the seven days of the week until 2026. Name the film and director. Provide an image. 4/7 Film: ‘The 39 Steps’ Director: Alfred Hitchcock #SevenDirectorsChallenge #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
unlabelledView post →THURSDAY NIGHT: The new BTE play goes into previews. It’s the 39 Steps, adapted from the 1935 Hitchcock film. I sound designed, and sourced 95% of cues from the 1930s. Come see it! It’s funny! Here’s Emily holding the poster.
unlabelledView post →AUG 13: Alfred Hitchcock movie🚬 #AugustMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 🎬 The 39 Steps (1935)
unlabelledView post →Choose one film from each of your 30 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a gif or still. 9.The 39 Steps (1935). Alfred Hitchcock.
unlabelledView post →What is a movie you love from 1935? One of my favourites from that year is ‘The 39 Steps’. 👍
unlabelledView post →Reveal your social security number using movie 📽️ titles! I’ll start: The One Fast Five Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The 39 Steps Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Se7en The Sixth Sense Y Tu Mamá También
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1874 in Assam, India. Helen Haye: British stage and film actress. Known for The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940), The 39 Steps (1935) and Drake of England (1935). Played Mrs. Hillcrist in the 1921 version of the Skin Game and also Hitchcock's in 1931.
unlabelledView post →BBC Film The 39 Steps | Tubi A Canadian mining engineer in London becomes entangled with a spy ring, is framed for murder, and must race to Scotland to stop the spies from stealing vital military plans
unlabelledView post →My dad took me to revival movie theaters in Manhattan as a child in the 80s, where I fell in love with King Kong, The 39 Steps, Seven Samurai, Connery-era Bond films, Jaws, the comedies of Jacques Tati and Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, which remains my favorite film all these years later.
unlabelledView post →Pictured; The 39 Steps- John Buchan;I've seen many film versions of this over the years,I'm finally getting round to reading the book ( written 1915) 📚💙 💙📚
unlabelledView post →[watching Hitchcock's The 39 Steps] I wonder how many concurrent viewers this has right now; dead movie imo
unlabelledView post →#bestfilminlondontoday Jan 7 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. THE 39 STEPS @ThePCCLondon capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/12/capi... 35mm My fave Hitchcock (MacGuffins, famous sound-match cut, the Master’s comedic voice, first Hitchcock blonde & perfect ending) www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
unlabelledView post →13 August 1899 – 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, 80, English-US filmmaker. The 39 Steps (1935) * Secret Agent and Sabotage (both 1936) * Young and Innocent (1937) * The Lady Vanishes (1938) Jamaica Inn (1939 his last British film) Hollywood debut Rebecca (1940 Oscar Best Picture to David O Selznick) 3/7
unlabelledView post →I liked [The 39 Steps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Steps_(1935_film)) a lot, haven't seen enough to see one I haven't liked but i hear that Hitchcock's filmography *is* a bit of a mixed bag.
unlabelledView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge Day 25 - someone wrongfully accused in a movie Richard Hannay - The 39 Steps #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →The 39 Steps (1935) Director: Alfred Hitchcock With: Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll Very good film with good acting by lead characters. I would like to watch the other adaptations too. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Film #18 for 2026 is The 39 Steps (1935). Being Hitchcock, I expected it to be slow, tense and methodical. Instead, it's lively, delightfully funny, and wholly unpredictable. You can never guess what's about to happen next. It's wonderful to discover that Hitchcock can be fun.
unlabelledView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 145/365 Alfred Hitchcock - The 39 Steps (1935) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
unlabelledView post →Watching the movie The 39 Steps tonight. Men with thick dark hair with a mustache drive me crazy.
unlabelledView post →My ★★★½ review of The 39 Steps on Letterboxd boxd.it/7TFfW3
unlabelledView post →Watched “The 39 Steps” this weekend. The impromptu speech the protagonist makes at the political rally he stumbles into sounded so much like #TimWalz I almost cried. Neighbor helping neighbor. Dignity, a fair chance, “that’s the kind of world I want to live in!” Thunderous applause in the movie. 💙
unlabelledView post →My next movie year is 1935! This will be my 13th year in a row before 1970 - the RNG is digging those old films! I've only seen Bride of Frankenstein and the 39 Steps. What other movies do I need to see? Post your recs!
unlabelledView post →"Mad Max, that’s a movie. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, that’s a movie. Rio Bravo, that’s a movie. And Coming Home in a Body Bag, that was a fuckin’ movie.” - Clarence Worley He was right to say it. Coulda said THE 39 STEPS while he was at it, too, because *that's* a fuckin' movie. 5 of 5 stars.
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