The 39 Steps (1935)

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A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.  Director: Alfred Hitchcock  Writer: John Buchan, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay  Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

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00:00A beautiful, mysterious woman pursued my gunman.

00:03Sounds like a spy story.

00:05That's exactly what it is.

00:08Only I prefer the word agent better.

00:16I've known what it is to feel lonely and helpless

00:18and to have the whole world against me.

00:20And those are things that no man or woman ought to feel.

00:30I can't stand it any longer. I'm going to tell them the whole story.

00:40You want to hang me for a murder I never committed?

00:42As long as they hang you, I don't care whether you committed it or not.

00:46You're a man and wife, President.

00:48Oh, yes.

00:55The very brilliant agent of a certain foreign power

00:59is on the point of obtaining a secret vital to your air defense.

01:03An enormously important secret is being taken out of this country by a foreign agent.

01:07There's a man leaving the country tonight with some...

01:09I'm just about to convey some very vital information out of the country.

01:14Have you ever heard of the 39 steps?

01:17No, what's fair, a pub?

01:19What won the derby in 1921?

01:22Mr. Jack Joel's humorist with Steve Donegoff won a length at the odds of 6 to 1.

01:26Am I right, sir?

01:27Right.

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