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The 39 steps / Janus Films ; Gaumont British Picture Corporation, Ltd. ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; adaptation, Charles Bennett ; dialogue, Ian Hay, Alma Reville ; producers, Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu.
LIBRA DVD 011 490
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 56.
- Criterion collection ; 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buchan, John, 1875-1940--Film adaptations.
- Buchan, John.
- Buchan, John, 1875-1940.
- Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Department.
- Great Britain.
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Defense information, Classified--Drama.
- Defense information, Classified.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Spy films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Thirty-nine steps
- Title on container: Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 steps
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [1999]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A young Canadian in England inadvertantly becomes involved in a pre-World War II spy ring when a female agent is murdered in his room. The rest of the film is devoted to his attempts to clear his name and catch the foreign spies before they take a valuable military secret out of the country. He is pursued across England and Scotland by Scotland Yard, which believe him to be the murderer, and the spies, who believe he knows their secret.
- Participant:
- Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Wylie Watson, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft.
- Credits:
- Photography, Bernard Knowles; editor, D.N. Twist; musical director, Louis Levy.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by John Buchan.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1935.
- Special features: audio essay by Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane; complete 1937 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, performed by Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino; "The art of film : vintage Hitchcock," a Janus Films documentary; excerpts from the 1935 press book; original production design drawings.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0780021967
- OCLC:
- 42805680
- Publisher Number:
- 037429135228
- THI120 The Criterion Collection
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