Who wrote the novel The 39 Steps?
The 39 Steps (1935 film) The 39 Steps (1935 film) The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. The film is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan. It is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called the 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman in the hopes
The 39 Steps (1935 film) having Annabella tell Hannay she is travelling to meet a man in Scotland (and produce a map with Alt-na-Shellach house circled) Hitchcock avoids the coincidence in Buchan's novel where Hannay, with the whole country in which to hide, chances to walk into the one house where the spy ringleader lives. "The 39 Steps" was a major British film of its time. The production company, Gaumont-British, was eager to establish its films in international markets, and especially in the United States, and "The 39 Steps" was conceived as a prime vehicle towards this end. Where Hitchcock's previous film, "The Man Who