The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
Country: GB
Technical: col 102m
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter
Synopsis:
A mining engineer tries to foil a Prussian assassination plot calculated to trigger what would be the Great War.
Review:
Unnecessary backdating of the Buchan original to pre-1914, changing several other details and concluding with an absurd race against time atop Big Ben. In refraining from executing yet another remake of the Hitchcock classic, the makers might have gone back to the source novel, but this was the Seventies and gimmickry, in the form of a scale copy of the Westminster clock face constructed at Pinewood Studios, was far more headline grabbing!
Country: GB
Technical: col 102m
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter
Synopsis:
A mining engineer tries to foil a Prussian assassination plot calculated to trigger what would be the Great War.
Review:
Unnecessary backdating of the Buchan original to pre-1914, changing several other details and concluding with an absurd race against time atop Big Ben. In refraining from executing yet another remake of the Hitchcock classic, the makers might have gone back to the source novel, but this was the Seventies and gimmickry, in the form of a scale copy of the Westminster clock face constructed at Pinewood Studios, was far more headline grabbing!
Country: GB
Technical: col 102m
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter
Synopsis:
A mining engineer tries to foil a Prussian assassination plot calculated to trigger what would be the Great War.
Review:
Unnecessary backdating of the Buchan original to pre-1914, changing several other details and concluding with an absurd race against time atop Big Ben. In refraining from executing yet another remake of the Hitchcock classic, the makers might have gone back to the source novel, but this was the Seventies and gimmickry, in the form of a scale copy of the Westminster clock face constructed at Pinewood Studios, was far more headline grabbing!