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The 39 Steps
1935
****
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier, Wylie Watson

After a mysterious woman is murdered in his London apartment, a Canadian tourist must go on the run all the way to Scotland to uncover a plot he only knows as The 39 Steps. Alfred Hitchcock's light-hearted and entertaining spy thriller is based on John Buchan's 1915 novel.