The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

movie

(2778)

Country: UK
Genres: Crime, History, Mystery
Release:
Director: Don Sharp
Writers: Michael Robson , John Buchan
Language:
Stars: Robert Powell , David Warner (I) , Eric Porter , Karen Dotrice , John Mills , George Baker , Ronald Pickup , Donald Pickering , Timothy West , Miles Anderson
Runtime: min
Awards:
AKA: 39 escalones (Spain) , The Thirty Nine Steps , 39 lépcsőfok (Hungary) , The Thirty Nine Steps (Australia) , Τα τριαντα εννέα σκαλοπάτια (Greece) , Os 39 Degraus (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , De 39 trinn (Norway) , The 39 Steps , The Thirty Nine Steps (United Kingdom) , 39 escalones (Mexico) , The Thirty-Nine Steps (Canada) , De 39 stegen (Sweden) , 39. Basamak (Turkey) , Los 39 escalones (Mexico) , Les 39 marches (France, French Republic) , I 39 scalini (Italy) , 39 askelta tuhoon (Finland) , 39 kroków (Poland) , Die 39 Stufen (Austria) , Тридцать девять ступеней , Os 39 Degraus (Brazil) , De 39 trin (Denmark) , Els trenta-nou esglaons (Spain) , Тридцять дев'ять сходинок (Ukraine) , Os Trinta e Nove Degraus (Brazil) , The Thirty Nine Steps (United States of America) , 39 de trepte (Romania) , Los 39 escalones (Venezuela) , Los 39 escalones (Argentina) , Die 39 Stufen , Sanshíjiu jí táijie (China)
Plot:
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian ‘sleeper’ agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the ‘sleepers’. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder’s death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government…
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