The 39 Steps (1935)




Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat - The 39 Steps

Robert Donat - The 39 Steps




A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.


Books on The 39 Steps

Mark Glancy
The 39 steps
London; New York, 2003

Books with substantial mentioning of The 39 Steps

Mark William Padilla
Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong man and Grace Kelly films
Lanham, Maryland, 2019

Alain Kerzoncuf and Charles Barr
Hitchcock lost and found, The forgotten films
Lexington, Kentucky, 2015

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Charles Barr
English Hitchcock, A Movie Book
Moffat, 1999

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Jerry Vermilye
The Great British Films
Secaucus, N.J., 1978

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Books with an entry on The 39 Steps

Ivan Butler
Cinema in Britain, An illustrated Survey
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973

Articles on The 39 Steps

Ian Nathan, The 39 steps, in: Empire, nr. 254 (August), 2010 pp. 118-120

Brenda Austin-Smith, Secrets, Lies, and "Virtuous Attachments", The Ambassadors and The 39 Steps, in: Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel (eds.), The Men Who Knew Too Much, New York, 2012