“The 39 Steps” quotes
(1935)
Alfred Hitchcock
directed this movie
in 1935
Title The 39 Steps
Year 1935
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genre Thriller, Mystery
Year 1935
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genre Thriller, Mystery
Plot – Richard Hanney is in London for business while a dying woman tells him confidential information about a professor, involving him in a spy story. The police thinks Richard is the responsible of the woman's death and chases him. A secret organization wants him dead too.
All actors – Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier, Wylie Watson, Gus McNaughton, Jerry Verno, Peggy Simpson
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“I am the only person who can stop them. If they are not stopped, it is only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.”
“- Hannay: Beautiful, mysterious woman pursued by gunmen. Sounds like a spy story.
- Miss Smith: That's exactly what it is.”“- Professor Jordan: What about our mutual friend, Annabella?
- Hannay: She's been murdered.”“I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for my hesitation in rising just now, but to tell you the simple truth, I'd entirely failed, while listening to the chairman's flattering description of the next speaker, to realize he was talking about me.”
“I'm going to tell you something which is not very healthy to know, but now that they have followed me here, you are in it as much as I am. Have you ever heard of the Thirty-Nine Steps?”
“There are 20 million women in this island and I've got to be chained to you.”
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