The 39 Steps

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Discuss this film for fourty-seven hours. Thank you.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Thursday, 23 January 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The original, that is.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Thursday, 23 January 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I really enjoyed the flim though it was a bit scary as I was quite young. I might not have enjoyed it as much/followed the plot if I had not read the book as well. I quite like Richard Hannay. See also Greenmantle.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 23 January 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Most Lubitschesque Hitchcock everrr.

― jot eff pe, Thursday, 23 January 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I love it. Isn't this the firs place a lot of action film cliches turned up? Kissing to escape the gaze of the police, sparring man/woman handcuffed together, etc? Even if it wasn't it's exciting and often pretty funny, and it has the Scottish guy from Dad's Army!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 23 January 2003 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Kissing to escape the gaze of the police

It has a very different effect than how it is typically presented in other movies.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Thursday, 23 January 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, very good point, I was a bit worried she'd be swept up in his manly pasion and fall for him. She didn't, at all.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 23 January 2003 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Favorite (relatively) early Hitchcock. The male lead is a great actor.

― Dan I., Thursday, 23 January 2003 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT ARE THE 39 STEPS?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr Memory was a very sad character, wasn't he?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I watched the film when it was on over Christmas, it is a terrific adaptation of the book, very faithful.
UNTIL 15mins from the end, WTF is all that business with the Houses of Parliament?
WHAT ARE THE 39 STEPS? Well I thought they were the steps down to the beach, but apparently not.
OUTRAGEOUS!

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 23 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Aa I;ve said before on here, The Lady Vanishes kicks this thing's overrated sorry ass

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 24 January 2003 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

its beau but theyre both good, dude!

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

the nu tv version of this was pimp.

― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 5 January 2009 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

Sending Subscription Emails...

― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 5 January 2009 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

i cant wait for some email. tell me more about this nu-tv version dude

― Lamp, Monday, 5 January 2009 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

- it starred rupert penry-jones from the incomparable 'spooks'
- it cut out all of the novel's anti-semitism
- made it directly about the assassination of franz ferdinand and start of ww1
- NOT THE BAND LOL
- he hooks up with this sufragette chick
- to state the bleedin obvious, the hitchcock version is ridiculously studio-bound
- this one wasn't
- it was just self-parodic enough

― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 5 January 2009 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

watching now!!

― cozwn, Monday, 5 January 2009 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

Only movie to have a music hall sequence to rival it is Quai des Orfèvres. Well, whatever the French equivalent of music hall is.

― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 01:47 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

the book's a ripping yarn, what

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

I started it and got grossed out by something...anti-semitism maybe?

― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:24 (fourteen years ago)

quite likely that, i'd say, tho tbh i went through it quickly enough that i can't really remember was it mainly in the view of the guy who started it all, our hero or the author. It's another discussion as to whether you can enjoy a novel that expresses the kind of views you'd find repugnant in eg an interview with the author (one i'm sure ilx has had a dozen times i'll bet)

I take it the movie's ilx recommended? Finished high in the decades film poll iirc

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I watched the film when it was on over Christmas, it is a terrific adaptation of the book, very faithful.
UNTIL 15mins from the end,

it really isn't.

it's good, but it's not even particularly recognisable in plot from the book.

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, 14 May 2012 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

a perfect movie

― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 August 2017 05:55 (eight years ago)

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