Fearing he will be accused of her murder, Hannay decides to continue her mission and catches an ex LNER Class A4 hauled train to Scotland from King's Cross railway station, evading the hitmen outside his flat by adopting a milkman disguise. The killing of Scudder ( John Mills) takes place at Marylebone Station. Marylebone is not only picturesque, but generally a quiet station, and so quite popular for filming. The Beatles departed from – and then arrived at – Marylebone Station under the opening credits of their first feature film A Hard Day’s Night. And when Julie Christie left ‘Bradford’ for London at the end of Billy Liar, she left from –erm – London’s Marylebone.

Production [ edit ] Hannay (Powell) hanging from Big Ben during the film's denouement. The scene was a departure from Buchan's novel, but was added because the Houses of Parliament represented the centre of British power in 1914. The production was shot using 35mm film rather than high-definition cameras. Hawes told Matthew Bell of Broadcast that: Pettigrew, Terence, British film character actors: great names and memorable moments, Volume 1982, Part 2 (Rowman & Littlefield, 1982), ISBN 978-0-7153-8270-7 p. 28 Rimington, Stella (11 January 2011). "John Buchan and The Thirty-Nine Steps". The Telegraph . Retrieved 12 August 2023.

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Kate Bassett (3 July 2005). " The 39 Steps, West Yorkshire, Playhouse, Leeds". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009 . Retrieved 4 April 2008. During the journey, he has a chance encounter with Miss Fisher ( Taina Elg), a netball coach at a boarding school for girls. He is forced to pretend they are lovers to avoid the police detectives who boarded at Edinburgh. However, Miss Fisher gives him away and Hannay jumps from the stationary train on the Forth Bridge. These include plays, comics, film, radio and television adaptations, starring the main character Richard Hannay and his spy chase through Scotland. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1978 thriller film directed by Don Sharp and starring Robert Powell. It is adapted from the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. The enduring popularity of John Buchan's 'The thirty-nine steps' has led to many adaptations and variations on the story.

I knew they were wanting to include car chases to make the drama much more exciting to watch. The only trouble was that the cars around this era weren't very fast. [14] The Thirty Nine Steps[ sic] is a British 1978 thriller film directed by Don Sharp, with screenplay by British playwright Michael Robson, based on the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It was the third film version of the 1915 novel. Kemp, Tina (3 July 2009). "Dumbarton Castle restored by dedicated team of stonemasons". Lennox Herald . Retrieved 11 December 2009. Capital doubles for London in adaptation of Buchan thriller". Edinburgh Evening News. 18 December 2008 . Retrieved 1 January 2009.Millar, Peter (20 December 2008). "Rupert Penry-Jones plays it Bond-style in the BBC remake of The 39 Steps". The Times. London . Retrieved 31 December 2008. Nigel Richardson (4 April 2009). "Fifty of Britain's best-kept secrets". The Telegraph . Retrieved 8 April 2012. In Ralph Thomas's remake, Kenneth More is thrown into the mystery by the death of a beautiful spy who has told him of an enemy group, The 39 Steps, which has stolen plans for a British missile.

The casting of Finnish actress and dancer Taina Elg, meanwhile, was unpopular with contemporary critics, who felt her performance to be unconvincing, feeling that "her beauty is frozen by the uncertainties of ignorance, if not of neuroticism". [12] Other players were largely character actors with long associations with Pinewood Studios and producer Betty E. Box. [5] [13] The question is: for the seven million people who watched it, did it feel authentic, did it create a sense of period? ...We were creating a realistic world within a world– a world of damsels and heroes and a huge amount of excitement. That, for me, is the priority. Did it create that world? It absolutely did. That's not to say that we don't work increasingly hard to get everything right. But it's hard to get all the details right when it's a 21st century drama, never mind anything earlier. [16] Broadcast [ edit ] Gill, A. A. (4 January 2009). "Rupert Penry-Jones shines in The 39 Steps". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 4 January 2009. The biplane that chased Hannay was a 1916 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a, [8] [15] and his apartment is shown as being in a 1920s-style Art Deco building. [16] Other minor mistakes included an anachronistic colour scheme for the British Railway carriages, and the appearance of a Philips 78 gramophone despite the company not being established until 1950. [16]

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The Adventures of Richard Hannay in eight half-hour parts, based on The Thirty-Nine Steps and Mr Standfast adapted by Winifred Carey and produced by Donald McLean. [22] Had Hannay not secretly unloaded Scudder's gun as the spy slept, the man would have been able to defend himself and likely not needed to run. Chances are he probably wouldn't have ended up dead either. Davies, David Stuart, afterword to Buchan, John, The Thirty-Nine Steps (Collector's Library, 2008) ISBN 978-1-905716-44-9, p. 148