finished watching The 39 Steps 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
1st Annual Criterion Challenge
Week 4: Based on a book
Nobody had ever told me that this movie was basically the rough draft for North By Northwest. But what really bowled me over was how a movie made in 1935 still seems so light on its feet when so many others of that time barely feel like movies to modern sensibilities.
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The 39 Steps
other title:
39 계단
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三十九夜
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Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.