The 39 Steps (1935 film)

6 June 1935 Premiere, London

At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay Robert Donat is watching a demonstration of the superlative powers of recall of Mr. Memory Wylie Watson when shots are fired. In the ensuing panic, Hannay finds himself holding a seemingly frightened Annabella Smith Lucie Mannheim, who talks him into taking her back to his flat. There, she tells him that she is a spy, being chased by assassins, and that she has uncovered a plot to steal vital British military secrets, masterminded by a man with the top joint missing from one of his fingers. She mentions theSteps, but does not explain its meaning.Later that night, Smith bursts into Hannays bedroom, fatally stabbed, and warns him to flee. He finds a map of the Scottish Highlands clutched in her hand, showing the area around Killin, with a house or farm named AltnaShellach circled. He sneaks out of the watched flat disguised as a milkman and boards the Flying Scotsman express train to Scotland. He learns from a newspaper that he is the target of a nationwide manhunt for Smiths murderer. When he sees the police searching the train, he enters a compartment and kisses the sole occupant, Pamela Madeleine Carroll, in a desperate attempt to escape detection. She frees herself from his unwanted embrace and alerts the policemen, who stop the train on the Forth Bridge. Hannay escapes, however. ........

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