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Alfred Hitchcock was already a successful director when he adapted John Buchan's mystery thriller The Thirty-Nine Step, but this picture is where we see many of the staples of his later career come to fruition and gel in a way that few directors before or since have managed to accomplish. Criterion does this seminal movie proud in a loaded special edition that features a lovely and clean high-definition transfer of very difficult source material.
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Posted by: Mark Zimmer - September 3, 2012, 12:23 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: mystery, thriller, mcguffin, spies, scotland, hitchcock, cameo, precode