En Londres, un hombre intenta ayudar a un agente de contraespionaje. Cuando matan a dicho agente, el hombre es acusado y tiene que huir para salvarse y detener un círculo de espías que busca... Leer todoEn Londres, un hombre intenta ayudar a un agente de contraespionaje. Cuando matan a dicho agente, el hombre es acusado y tiene que huir para salvarse y detener un círculo de espías que busca información de alto secreto.En Londres, un hombre intenta ayudar a un agente de contraespionaje. Cuando matan a dicho agente, el hombre es acusado y tiene que huir para salvarse y detener un círculo de espías que busca información de alto secreto.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Premios
- 3 premios ganados y 1 nominación en total
- Commercial Traveller
- (as Gus Mac Naughton)
- Political Meeting Chairman
- (sin créditos)
- 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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- Dirección
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- Todo el elenco y el equipo
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Resumen
Opiniones destacadas
There is no director in the history of the cinema who liked a good chase film better than Alfred Hitchcock. This one's a beauty with a wrongly accused of murder Robert Donat, running from London to Scotland and back again to find some spies to clear his name. Along the way Donat picks up a lovely and first unwilling traveling companion in Madeleine Carroll who is arguably the first of his blonde heroines.
Donat and Ronald Colman rivaled for roles somewhat, they seem always to be cast as the same type of characters. Of course Donat worked primarily in the UK and on stage while Colman was strictly a movie actor since the silent days. Colman is the only other guy who could have done this and other Donat parts. It's a pity there are none like either of these guys around today.
When Geoffrey Tearle thinks he's disposed of Donat by shooting him, Donat's life got saved by a hymn book in his breast pocket. Whether that was a device in the original novel by John Buchan or something Alfred Hitchcock improvised the inspiration for it was definitely taken from the attempted assassination of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. While running for president on the Progressive ticket that year, Roosevelt was shot in the chest in Milwaukee. What saved his life was a copy of his speech and an eyeglass case in his breast pocket.
The whole thing here is how the espionage is being carried out and I won't reveal it. But if you've seen Torn Curtain remember why Paul Newman was the only guy they could send on that espionage mission.
This is probably Hitchcock's best film from his pre-Hollywood period and shouldn't be missed.
A lot of good intellectual analysis has been written here on IMDb and elsewhere about The 39 Steps. And the film deserves it. The 39 Steps is not only a great romantic adventure with the usual Hitchcock humor blended seamlessly into the mix, but it is also rich in allegory, metaphor and even subtle symbolism. Many of Hitchcock's typical themes appear throughout the film - marriage in its various forms, human relationships, and the many varieties and scales of deceit. But the purpose of this review is not to indulge in the meta-text of The 39 Steps, but rather, to discuss its entertainment value.
It is lovely to look at, but lacks much of the cinematographic experimentation and play of Hitchcock's earlier films. It is perfectly scripted - each character has a distinct personality and predicament, and they are all very believable and very well acted. The plot provides suspense, comedy, a powerful but unexaggerated analysis of belief, paranoia and propaganda. Suffice to say that the film can be seen from many perspectives and tends to hit its audience at many levels.
The camera work is more consistently focused on the story than many of Hitchcock's films, and the script offers a lot of activity jammed into a relatively short length. No time is wasted and the film zips by. Despite the lean and economical style, The 39 Steps is easily followed and doesn't require a great deal of thought or interpretation. However, as previously stated, the film can certainly inspire interpretive and critical thought if that's what you are looking for.
The 39 Steps is a gift, and never a burden. Highly recommended.
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- TriviaBefore 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.
- ErroresThe serial number of the autogyro has been reversed, showing that the stock shot has been reversed for effect.
- Citas
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.
- ConexionesEdited into Everything Is Thunder (1936)
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitio oficial
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Los 39 escalones
- Locaciones de filmación
- Glen Coe, Highland, Escocia, Reino Unido(Hannay arrives at Professor Jordan's home)
- Productora
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- GBP 50,000 (estimado)
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 54,096
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 26 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1