In Reply to: 39 Steps. Overrated? posted by tinear on December 16, 2003 at 15:16:30:
. . . but it IS quite dated.Yes, they DID make movies differently back then. The movie feels stilted and overacted by todays standards. Typical of the times.
It's Hitchcock learning his trade, finding his feet. Bad by later Hitch standards, but better than most of his contemporaries.
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