"the Rank Studio Orchestra conducted by the composer. It has not yet reappeared on CD. The film was successful at the box office. Greg Smith said that John Buchan's son, Lord Tweedsmuir, was pleased the film used more of his father's book, and that he thought his father would have liked the Big Ben ending. The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 film) The Thirty Nine Steps 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"
"Thirteen Steps (novel) Thirteen Steps is a 1988 novel by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan. It first appeared in 1988 in the literary magazine ""Wenxue si ji"". It later appeared in book form in April 1989. The protagonist is a madman locked in an iron cage. He relies upon the audience (or listeners) to feed him chalk so that he can prolong his own life and spit out tales of the miraculous and inconceivable about the lives of others. Through these unreliable narrative bits and pieces, community histories are being reinvented, creating ”a grotesque and unpleasant aura” as it critiques"
"The Mystery of the 99 Steps The Mystery of the 99 Steps is the forty-third volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1966 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Nancy looks for a flight of the 99 steps to solve the mystery of a friend's strange dream. But before she leaves the United States for France, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not to pursue her mission. With her friends Bess and George, Nancy arrives in Paris to join her father who"
"Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film ""The 39 Steps"" (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name. In his autobiography, ""Memory Hold-the-Door"", Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: He also appears as a minor character in: ""The Thirty-One Kings"" (2017), by"
"reader spellbound with suspense. The Mystery of the 99 Steps The Mystery of the 99 Steps is the forty-third volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1966 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Nancy looks for a flight of the 99 steps to solve the mystery of a friend's strange dream. But before she leaves the United States for France, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not to pursue her mission. With her friends Bess and George, Nancy arrives in Paris to"
"the excesses of China’s capitalist development. Thirteen Steps (novel) Thirteen Steps is a 1988 novel by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan. It first appeared in 1988 in the literary magazine ""Wenxue si ji"". It later appeared in book form in April 1989. The protagonist is a madman locked in an iron cage. He relies upon the audience (or listeners) to feed him chalk so that he can prolong his own life and spit out tales of the miraculous and inconceivable about the lives of others. Through these unreliable narrative bits and pieces, community histories are being reinvented, creating ”a grotesque"
"defended by others such as Roger Kimball, who stated that Buchan's anti-Semitism was merely representative of society at that time and that Buchan denounced Hitler's anti-Semitic policies in 1934.) In recognition of his contributions to literature and education, on 1 January 1932, Buchan was granted the personal gift of the sovereign of induction into the Order of the Companions of Honour. In 1935 Buchan's literary work was adapted for the cinema with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"", starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered. This came in the same year that Buchan"
"box office in 1935–36. Of the four major film versions of the novel, Hitchcock's film has been the most acclaimed. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the fourth best British film of the 20th century; in 2004, ""Total Film"" named it the 21st greatest British movie ever made, and in 2011 ranked it the second-best book-to-film adaptation of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for ""Time Out"" magazine saw it ranked the 13th best British film ever. ""The 39 Steps"" was one of Orson Welles' favourite Hitchcock films, and of"
"in The Thirty-Nine Steps book and films. The Artie Conan Doyle Mysteries: The Gravediggers Club The Vanishing Dragon Richard Hannay Returns: The Thirty-One Kings Robert J. Harris (writer) Robert J. Harris (Bob) is a Scottish academic and author, particularly of children's fantasies and historical novels, best known for his collaborations with Jane Yolen. He also designed the fantasy board game ""Talisman"" and its sequel ""Mythgardia"". Harris was born in Dundee and studied at the University of St. Andrews, achieving a first class honours degree in Latin. Harris lives in Scotland and is married to American author Deborah Turner Harris. His"
"radio, film, and for stage. There have been several film versions of the book; all depart substantially from the text, for example, by introducing a love interest absent from the original novel. For the films, the title is often abbreviated to ""The 39 Steps"", but the full title is more commonly used for the book and for the 1978 adaptation. On 1 August 1939, Orson Welles starred in a radio adaptation of the novel on ""The Mercury Theatre on the Air"". Glenn Ford starred in an adaptation on 23 March 1948 broadcast of ""Studio One"" with Everett Sloane, Mercedes McCambridge"
"focusing on a site with the largest, most remote wooded area, accessible only by a mile and a half trek."" Corble was founder and artistic director of the Midsommer Actors' Company (1990–1999), which created open air site-specific theatre with the emphasis on the actor's performance. It moved indoors in 1997 to stage The 39 Steps, a play Corble co-wrote with Nobby Dimon which, proved to have a long life in theatres all over the world, with runs in London's West End and in Broadway. The adaptation, written for a cast of four actors and funded by a £1,000 Yorkshire Arts"
"Leicester Square Theatre, and subsequently performed in the play around the UK on tour. He lists this as his favourite theatre job. Returned to the theatre in the West End to appear as one of four actors in ""The 39 Steps"", a stage production of the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel by John Buchan and adapted by Patrick Barlow at the Criterion Theatre on Piccadilly Circus. The play involves the four actors playing all the 150 characters in the Hitchcock film which involves lightning quick costume and character changes. Has performed in many British television programmes"
"of the Second World War, Buchan's last novel, ""Sick Heart River"" (published just after the author died in 1940) offers a hint about Hannay's future: dying in Canada, Hannay's friend Sir Edward Leithen hears of the outbreak of war in Europe and guesses that many of his old friends, including Hannay, will have taken up arms again. Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film ""The 39 Steps"" (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based"
"Thirteen Steps Down Thirteen Steps Down (2004) is a psychological thriller novel by Ruth Rendell. Its publication in the UK marked Rendell's 40th anniversary of being published, and all hardcover copies of the book had a special promotional notice on the cover celebrating this. Mix Cellini is a lonely, maladjusted young man who works for a company that repairs exercise equipment, and lives in the upstairs apartment of an old Victorian house on Notting Hill. While his reclusive landlady, Gwendoline Chawcer, spends her time reading and pondering lost loves, Mix grows dangerously obsessed with serial killer John Christie and a"
"The 39 Clues The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel. It consists of five series, ""The Clue Hunt"", ""Cahills vs. Vespers"", ""Unstoppable"", ""Doublecross"", and ""Superspecial"". They chronicle the adventures of two siblings, Amy and Dan Cahill, who discover that their family, the Cahills, has been the most influential family in history. The first story arc concerns Dan and Amy's"
"her to write a number of sequels for her ""reckless daredevil"" over the next 35 years. The play was performed to great acclaim in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, while the novel was translated into 16 languages. Subsequently, the story has been adapted for television, film, a musical and other media. John Buchan (1875–1940) published the adventure novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" in 1915. The novelist Georgette Heyer created the historical romance genre. The Kailyard school of Scottish writers, notably J. M. Barrie (1869–1937), creator of ""Peter Pan"" (1904), presented an idealised version of society and brought of fantasy and folklore"
"Steps (book) Steps is a book by a Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosiński, released in 1968 by Random House. The work comprises scores of loosely connected vignettes or short stories, which explore themes of social control and alienation by depicting scenes rich in erotic and violent motives. ""Steps"" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1969. ""Steps"" was Kosiński's second novel, a follow-up to his successful ""The Painted Bird"" released in 1965. It consists of a series of short stories, reminiscences, anecdotes and dialogues, loosely linked to each other or having no connection at all, written in the first"
"Book of Steps The Book of Steps (, ""Kṯāḇâ ḏ-Masqāṯâ""; also known by the Latin name ""Liber Graduum"") is an anonymous Syriac treatise on spiritual direction, probably written in the late fourth century AD (or possibly early fifth century). The author appears to be living in the Persian Empire, perhaps somewhere near the Lesser Zab, as it is mentioned in Memra Thirty, and addresses the author's own Christian community. The ""Book of Steps"" is divided into thirty chapters, or ""discourses"" (, ""mêmrê""). The first discourse, and subsequent ones (especially number 14), divides the community into two groups. One group is"
"In His Steps In His Steps is a best-selling religious fiction novel written by Charles Monroe Sheldon. First published in 1896, the book has sold more than 30,000,000 copies, and ranks as one of the best-selling books of all time. The full title of the book is ""In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?"". Though variations of the subtitle ""What would Jesus do"" have been used by Christians for centuries as a form of ""imitatio dei"", the imitation of God, it gained much greater currency following publication of the book. Chicago Advance, the original publisher, failed to register the copyright"
"39 Steps (band) 39 Steps were a Canadian alternative rock/punk rock band from Montreal, Quebec best known for their single ""Slip into the Crowd"", a song they originally performed in the late 1970s as The 222s, which they are featured playing in the Woody Allen film ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" in a scene set at CBGB NYC. Their name is taken from the classic work ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"". The band is no longer active. Lead singer and principal songwriter Chris Barry reunited with his first well known band, The 222s in 2010 for a short series of stellar performances in"
"Madeleine Carroll Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success she was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning a then staggering $250,000 in 1938. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935). She is also noted for abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz, to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced and maimed by the war. Carroll was born at"
"plaque, was sent to Buchan. The mysterious phrase ""Thirty-Nine Steps"", first mentioned by the character Franklin Scudder, becomes the title of the novel and the solution to its meaning is a thread that runs through the whole story. The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his"
"for the company, ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1934), was a success; his second, ""The 39 Steps"" (1935), was acclaimed in the UK and made Hitchcock a star in the US. It also established the quintessential English ""Hitchcock blonde"" (Madeleine Carroll) as the template for his succession of ice-cold, elegant leading ladies. Screenwriter Robert Towne remarked, ""It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with ""The 39 Steps"""". This film was one of the first to introduce the ""MacGuffin"" plot device, a term coined by the English screenwriter Angus MacPhail. The MacGuffin is"
"not easily navigated. It’s similar to a metaphor for a journey with blind spots and false turns where some things are hidden. In the 1935 release of Thirty-Nine Steps , character Richard Hannay leaves a theatre with a mysterious and attractive woman, they begin a romance adventure journey into the world of spies, double agents and espionage. Author John Buchan was a pioneer of spy thrillers, adding romance and adventure traditions into the then new context of political conflict. The possibility of romance between the mysterious woman, and a decent gentleman was only a minor consideration to Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation."
"Also, in 2008, Penguin Books adapted the story as interactive fiction under the authorship of Charles Cumming calling it ""The 21 Steps"". A digital adaptation of Buchan's book, created with Unity, was made by Scottish developer The Story Mechanics and released on 25 April 2013, for Windows, OS X, Linux and iPad. This version is entirely faithful to the plot of the book. Buchan wrote the book while he was recuperating from illness at a house called St Cuby, Cliff Promenade, Broadstairs. As mentioned in the Background section, the original steps were demolished, and a part of them was sent"
"change experienced by Raymond's sarcastic editor, whose repulsion to the concept of a personified Christ but increasing attraction to the actual Person he encounters, is magnificently and coherently, in the end, rewarded. In His Steps In His Steps is a best-selling religious fiction novel written by Charles Monroe Sheldon. First published in 1896, the book has sold more than 30,000,000 copies, and ranks as one of the best-selling books of all time. The full title of the book is ""In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?"". Though variations of the subtitle ""What would Jesus do"" have been used by Christians"
"Two Steps Forward Two Steps Forward is a 2017 novel by Australian husband and wife novelists Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. The work was first published on October 2, 2017 in Australia and New Zealand by Text Publishing. The novel follows two dissimilar people, Zoe and Martin, as their paths cross during a 2000 kilometre walk on the Camino de Santiago. Zoe Witt is an American artist with new-age views, who makes a spontaneous decision to walk the Chemin de St Jacques / Camino de Santiago de Compostela from Cluny in central France following the sudden death of her husband."
"Robert Donat Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor. In his book, ""The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards"" wrote that Donat was ""The British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s"". ""The image he projected was that of the romantic idealist, often with a dash of the gentleman adventurer."" Donat suffered from chronic asthma, which affected his"
"Peter Lerangis Peter Duncan Lerangis (born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955) is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his ""Seven Wonders"" series and his 39 clues series. Lerangis's work includes the ""Seven Wonders"" series, all five books of which made The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Books. He was also the author of ""The Viper's Nest"" and ""The Sword Thief"", two titles in the ""New York Times""-bestselling children's-book series ""The 39 Clues"", along with the second entry in a four-novella collection, ""Vespers Rising"". This book served as an introduction to"
"12 March 1959 at the Odeon Leicester Square and was released in the US on 10 October 1960. In home video formats, it is available in Region 2 PAL on Carlton International DVD, albeit in a zoomed 4x3 print of the original 1.75:1 ratio and with no extra features. It is also available on a Region 1 NTSC DVD where the film is presented in a widescreen print. The 39 Steps (1959 film) The 39 Steps is a 1959 British thriller film produced by Betty Box, directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More and Taina Elg. It is a"
"poverty, who brings life and a future to the bittersweet tale. The character of Elsie reappears in ""Elsie and the Child: A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories"" (1924). Riceyman Steps Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell area of London. Arnold Bennett was a keen amateur sailor and it was while on sailing trips on the Solent he discovered a chaotic"
"""the longest-running Broadway play in seven years"" (according to the writer for Playbill.com). ""The 39 Steps"" transferred to the off-Broadway venue New World Stages, reopening on 25 March 2010. On April 1, 2015, performances of the play, subtly retitled ""39 Steps"", resumed at the Union Square Theatre with the entire original creative team, and starring Robert Petkoff as Hannay, Brittany Vicars as the women, Billy Carter as Man #1. Arnie Burton resumed his long-running stint as Man #2; a role he continued until the 'clock' for his tenure reached 1000 performances on September 28, 2015. Mark Cameron Pow replaced Arnie"
"not like her very much, but as well as the fade-out music to ""The 39 Steps"", he also used an orchestrated version of her song ""May I Have The Next Romance With You"" in the ballroom sequence of his film ""Young and Innocent"". ""The 39 Steps"" is the second film (after the silent film """") in a line of Hitchcock films based upon an innocent man being forced on the run, including ""Saboteur"" (1942) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959). The film contains a common Hitchcockian trope of a MacGuffin (a plot device which is vital to the story, but irrelevant"