Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

Robert Donat stars in this british thriller. 1935. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) meet a frightened Annabella Smith (Wylie Watson) one night at a London music hall theatre during the chaos after that somebody fires a gun there. He brings her to his apartment.
She tells him that she's a spy and that a man, with a part of one of his little fingers cut off, is planning to do something evil. Later that night, Annabella is stabbed to death. But before she dies, she warns Richard and he escapes.
After being handcuffed to the attractive Pamela (Madeleine Carroll), Richard tries to sold this mystery but it's going to be harder then he first thought.
When I saw this film, the quality was far away from good. I could hardly hear what they said and almost everyhting was covered in thick darkness that made most scenes of the film very hard to watch because it was hard to see what was actually happening.
Maybe this film would have been good if the quality was better, but I doubt it. It's not one of those films that's still good enough to find exiting nowadays. I like watching films from the 30's, but this one isn't very good unofortunately.

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