Decided for the first time to watch some of Alfred Hitchcock's earlier films and I got to say, that was by far one of the best decision's I've ever made in my life. Granted Hitchcock has made a dozen films starting around the silent film’s era to the golden age of sound films. Though some of his films, prior early-thirties films are on the hard to find list when it comes to DVD and Blu-Ray lists, mainly because those early films were made in England with the film company called Gaumont-British now keep in mind this was before he moved to Hollywood and became the legend we all know and loved. But if you want my honest opinion, I truly believe that everyone needs to see his early work, because he was truly amazing long before he made movies like Notorious, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo and Psycho. Furthermore, the 39 Steps is one of those grand films that everyone needs to see, even though this was hardly recognized to the entire world. Plus, Hitchcock was the first man to create the spy movie genre. So, with that in mind let's talk about the 39 Steps.
Richard Hannay (Richard Donat) gets more than he bargains for when a mysterious spy (Lucie Mannheim) comes to him for help, she explains about a mysterious the 39 Steps and how it could affect England. She is later murdered, now Hannay becomes a prime suspect in her murder and his force to flee the police across England and Scotland in order to clear his own name but with the whole United Kingdom chasing him can he be able to convince everyone the truth? Or will he be the next victims to be silenced.
Even though this film was made in the mid-thirties this film alone is incredible all of the angles Hitchcock made, all of the tricks he uses through the course of his film career they all started with The 39 Steps. Especially through the course of the story you really feel for the character moreover feel terrified of what happens to the character on whether he lives or doesn't make it in the end. So if you’re in a crave for the spy movie genre but are having a hard time finding something new than I would highly recommend this great flick, and let’s not forget this was young Alfred Hitchcock this was when he was using the ingenious way of getting up close to the character so you can feel is every emotion on screen furthermore this of all films is one of the simplest of stories that if your trying to get your first movie going or having a hard time getting your story together than this movie alone you need to check out mainly because the film almost looks like the it was just film on multiple sets somewhere in the London studio, now to be honest I doubt you'll be able to do that concept now when it comes to filmmaking but if you can keep something simple and just film it in some by near small town or village. Or buy out a city or a district you can defiantly make a movie like this happen. Robert Donat does an amazing job as the star of the film, he really does a fantastic work in making you feel how scared the protagonist is, in his struggles to hopefully clear his name from an organization that doesn't exist. Madeleine Carroll who plays the leading lady in the film does a great job as well playing in elegant and beautiful woman, furthermore standing out in the future for leading Hitchcock blondes as they're usually call in majority of Hitchcock's films. Although I do find it interesting that this film alone is the only one both Donat and Carroll are most famous for between these two greats they decided to stay in stage and Carroll decided to quit acting because of her sister that died, even though we will never know I guess the only answer is that there moments were we just have enough of the business. I would defiantly rank this in one of the top ten best Hitchcock films of all time and if you haven't seen any of the Master of Suspense's earlier works than I would highly recommend watching either on YouTube or Amazon Prime, furthermore don't be afraid to try something new, believe me you'll never know when you have a great sense of feeling whenever you watch a film like this.
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