![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pamela is the archetype of the cool blondes featured in so many of the director’s subsequent films. The 39 Steps established Hitchcock’s comedy-thriller template of set pieces – including a dramatic escape from the Flying Scotsman on the Forth Bridge – linked by a tenuous plot and laced with sexual tension, not least when Hannay finds himself handcuffed to Pamela (Madeleine Carroll). “In all its merry briskness, there’s hardly time to notice that our hero, Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), is about the best original of James Bond you’ll ever find.”Īlfred Hitchcock and his frequent screenwriter Charles Bennett play fast and loose with the plot of John Buchan’s 1915 novel, as hero Richard Hannay flees London for the Highlands, evading the police in pursuit of a vicious foreign spy ring. ![]()
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