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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

39 steps (Motion picture : 1935)

Title:

The 39 steps [videorecording] / Janus Films ; ITV Studios Global Entertainment ; Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd. presents ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; adaptation, Charles Bennett ; producers, Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu.

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Criterion collection 56

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 56.

Subjects:

Buchan, John, 1875-1940 -- Film adaptations.

Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Conspiracies -- Drama.

Espionage -- Drama.

Detective and mystery films.

Spy films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Donat, Robert, 1905-1958.

Carroll, Madeleine, 1906-1987.

Mannheim, Lucie, 1895-1976.

Tearle, Godfrey, 1884-1953.

Ashcroft, Peggy, 1907-1991.

Laurie, John, 1897-1980.

Haye, Helen, 1874-1957.

Cellier, Frank, 1884-1948.

Watson, Wylie.

Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995.

Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977.

Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984.

Knowles, Bernard, 1900-1975.

Twist, Derek N., 1905-1979.

Levy, Louis, 1894-1957.

Buchan, John, 1875-1940. 39 steps.

Leff, Leonard J.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Janus Films.

ITV Studios.

Other Title:

Thirty-nine steps

Alfred Hitchcock's the 39 steps

Notes:

Adapted from the novel by John Buchan.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

Special features: Audio commentary by Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane; Hitchcock: the early years (2000), a British documentary; original footage from 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 Francois Truffaut's 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock; original production design drawings.

Accompanying booklet includes essay by film critic David Cairns.

Photographer, Bernard Knowles; editor, D.N. Twist; musical director, Louis Levy.

Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godrey Tearle, Peggy Achcroft, John Laurie, Heleny Haye, Franck Cellier.

DVD, NTSC, screen (1.33:1) presentation, high definition digital restoration; PCM mono.

Closed-captioned; English dialogue with optional English subtitles.

Contents:

Play the movie -- Chapters -- Commentary -- Supplements.

ISBN:

9786314680862

9781604656046

1604656042

0715515096416

Publisher Number:

CC2161DDVD

Other Number:

795250401

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

451410

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Thirty-n

Medium:

[videorecording]