Director: Alfred Hitchcock
My totally haphazard old film knowledge fails me when I see a film like The 39 Steps - I should probably not even bother rating such a film. The 39 Steps could be re-named the 39 Deus Ex Machinas - our heroes fall into and out of trouble so fast that we might miss it if we blinked. The film's plot is also exceptionally similar to North By Northwest (regular dude hears some spy shit, has to lam it).
One of the film's strengths is its 86 minute running time - modern directors would've made this 125 minutes, with a jive-talking pop-culture referencing panda and ponderous scenes of exposition where all the nonsense that happens in this movie gets explained - Hitchcock merely lets it all happen. Hitchcock also throws in a few inventive camera shots that suggest his later genius.
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