From the beginning, where a knife is planted in the lady's back but the sleeping Rob't. Donat is NOT attacked, it is hard to suspend belief (quite different from suspending thought...).
I found myself thinking throughout most of the film that he should have taken the farmer's wife...she certainly was more appealing than the cold-fish blonde.
It was an earlier version of "The Fugitive," but the antagonist was curiously undeveloped, i.e. you never got to fear or hate him.
Entertaining? Yes, but hardly worthy of all the praise.
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Topic - 39 Steps. Overrated? - tinear 15:16:30 12/16/03 (20)
- Not Overrated . . . - Troy 13:15:20 12/17/03 (12)
- Yes, I agree that it is second-rate Hitchcock but.... - danj 22:36:09 12/17/03 (11)
- Mine too! - padreken 14:39:56 12/18/03 (5)
- Re: Mine too! - patrickU 05:16:11 12/19/03 (4)
- Re: George Sanders - rico 06:28:21 12/19/03 (2)
- George Sanders masterwork was..... - danj 23:12:01 12/23/03 (0)
- Re: George Sanders - patrickU 06:37:56 12/19/03 (0)
- Re: Sanders - rico 06:24:04 12/19/03 (0)
- Favorite Hitch? There are so many . . . - Troy 07:47:10 12/18/03 (1)
- Re: Favorite Hitch? There are so many . . . - patrickU 05:18:31 12/19/03 (0)
- Re: Vertigo - rico 06:30:38 12/18/03 (1)
- Re: Vertigo - patrickU 06:38:49 12/19/03 (0)
- Re: Yes, I agree that it is second-rate Hitchcock but.... - patrickU 01:15:54 12/18/03 (0)
- Re: 39 Steps. Overrated? - patrickU 05:33:44 12/17/03 (6)
- I stand by my "review." And, don't try that old - tinear 06:20:03 12/17/03 (5)
- Re: I stand by my "review." And, don't try that old - patrickU 07:11:20 12/17/03 (4)
- "Jules et Jim?" Perhaps the - tinear 05:16:37 12/18/03 (3)
- Re: "Jules et Jim?" I would be mystified of.... - patrickU 05:19:40 12/18/03 (2)
- Just a quick comment... on encoding... - Victor Khomenko 06:18:16 12/18/03 (1)
- Re: Just a quick comment... on encoding... - patrickU 08:03:56 12/18/03 (0)