Un uomo a Londra cerca di aiutare un agente del controspionaggio. Ma quando l'agente viene ucciso e l'uomo viene accusato, deve scappare per salvarsi e fermare un anello di spie che sta cerc... Leggi tuttoUn uomo a Londra cerca di aiutare un agente del controspionaggio. Ma quando l'agente viene ucciso e l'uomo viene accusato, deve scappare per salvarsi e fermare un anello di spie che sta cercando di rubare informazioni top secret.Un uomo a Londra cerca di aiutare un agente del controspionaggio. Ma quando l'agente viene ucciso e l'uomo viene accusato, deve scappare per salvarsi e fermare un anello di spie che sta cercando di rubare informazioni top secret.
- Premi
- 1 vittoria e 1 candidatura
- Commercial Traveller
- (as Gus Mac Naughton)
- Political Meeting Chairman
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- Second Passerby Near the Bus
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- Minor Role
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- Police Sergeant
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- Palladium Doorman
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- Fake Police Officer
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- QuizBefore filming the scene where Hannay (Robert Donat) and Pamela (Madeleine Carroll) run through the countryside, Sir Alfred Hitchcock handcuffed them together and pretended for several hours to have lost the key in order to put them in the right frame of mind for such a situation.
- BlooperThe newspaper Hannay looks at on the Flying Scotsman is dated Wednesday and tells of the murder the night before, and when Hannay is arrested Sheriff Watson says it's for the murder of a woman on "Tuesday last." But when Hannay is telling Pamela in the inn when he last slept, he tells her it was last Saturday.
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Richard Hannay: I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel.
- ConnessioniEdited into Ombre al confine (1936)
Over a span of four days, the smart and unflappable protagonist, Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) is involved in a circular journey to prove his innocence and expose the hive of intrigue. He is involved in chases and romantic interludes that take him from London to the Scottish Highlands and back again and he assumes numerous identities on the way - a milkman, an auto mechanic, a honeymooner, a political speaker among others.
The opening of the film, the first three shorts do not show him above his neck. With his back to the camera, he is followed down the aisle to his seat. He is then assumed to be lost in the crowd. This gives the audience the feeling that he could be anybody. Later when he takes in the identities of a milkman, a mechanic, a politician one realizes that he is Hitchcock's archetypal 'everyman' who unwittingly finds himself in incredible dilemmas.
In one of the brilliantly managed sequences on the train, Richard Hannay throws himself at a lone girl and forces a kiss just as a detective and two policemen pass by their compartment. It reveals his desperation to remain free until he can prove his innocence. In the scene after Annabella staggers into his room with a kitchen knife in her back, Hannay sees her ghostly image (which is superimposed) talking to him, `What you are laughing at right now is true. These men will stop at nothing.' The double exposure achieves a result which is a tad chilling and sad. The hallmark of Hitchcock's style is his ability to completely shock his audience by deliberately playing against how they would be thinking. In such episodes as the murder of the woman in Hannay's apartment or when the vicious professor with the missing finger casually shoots Hannay, the action progresses almost nonchalantly leaving the viewers stunned.
A great story, interesting and likeable characters, slyly incongruous wit, classic Hitchcockian motifs and a great MacGuffin are just a few things that make the The 39 Steps the quintessential Hitchcock.
- Amit_Verma
- 28 apr 2003
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- I 39 scalini
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Glen Coe, Highland, Scozia, Regno Unito(Hannay arrives at Professor Jordan's home)
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- Budget
- 50.000 £ (previsto)
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 52.623 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 26 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1