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©2012
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet ([16] pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.)
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Based on the novel by John Buchan
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1935
Accompanying booklet includes essay by film critic David Cairns
Special features include: audio commentary by Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane ; Hitchcock : the early years (2000), a British documentary ; original footage from British broadcaster Mike Scott's 1966 TV interview with Hitchcock ; complete broadcast of the 1937 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation ; visual essay by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff ; excerpts from François Truffaut's 1962 interviews with Hitchcock ; original production drawings
Photographer, Bernard Knowles ; editor, D.N. Twist ; musical director, Louis Levy ; continuity, Alma Reville
Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, John Laurie, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
MPAA rating: not rated
Blu-ray format ; region A ; full screen, 1.33:1
English dialogue; English SDH subtitles