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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, follwing Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scotish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
Criterion Collection ; director, Alfred Hitchcock.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.
Accompanying booklet includes essay by film critic David Cairns.
Special features: audio commentary by Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane ; Hitchcock: the early years (2000), a British documentary ; original footage from the broadcaster Mike Scott's 1966 TV interview with Hitchcock ; complete broadcast of the 1937 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation ; visual essay by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff ; excerpts from Francois Truffaut's 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock ; original production drawings.
Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, John Laurie.
Blu-ray; PMCmono; full screen (1.33:1); requires Blu-ray player.
English dialogue; English subtitles ; Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Photography, Bernard Knowles ; editor, D.N. Twist ; music, Louis Levy.
Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 56