The 39 Steps/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD

THE 39 STEPS is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock (PSYCHO), following Richard Hannay (Oscar winner Robert Donat of GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS), who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela (Madeline Carroll). Adapted from a novel by John Buchan, this classic wrong-man thriller from the Master of Suspense anticipates the director's most famous works (especially NORTH BY NORTHWEST), and remains one of his cleverest and most entertaining films.