Watch The 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock
Good reasons to watch The 39 Steps
I will grant you that, The 39 Steps does not make it into Hitchcock’s Top 5 Best Movies. But just a reminder: here we’re only offering free and legal movie streaming – and if you put aside the outstanding Hitchcock presents series The 39 Steps is Hitchcock’s best gift to the Internet.
You could say it’s like being the highest peak below 2000 meters in the French Alps. You could also say that it’s a very good movie if not an outstanding one. As for myself, I prefer to see my glass of Champagne half full.
So you’ll have to grant a suspension of disbelief (for the many Coleridge fans out there) or accept a few inconsistencies in the scenario: spies everywhere, an ever-escaping hero, etc.
If that’s not too much to ask, you’ll be rewarded with a thrilling, palpitating, entertaining spy movie, especially if you’re into one of the following items:
- Innocent men on the run (usually because they know too much);
- Woman spies who get stabbed in your bedroom;
- Being handcuffed to someone else while trying to escape from killers or the police;
- Impromptu political speeches;
- Trains and Scottish landscapes;
- Hitchcock cameo spotting (twice in this movie).
Any subsequent need to rebalance the quintessential image of the ‘Hitchcock blonde’ with something less patriarchal can be fulfilled by watching the excellent His Girl Friday.
If you’re planning on escaping from something in the near future, watch that movie.
All You Need to Know about The 39 Steps
1935 - 1h 26min
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Stars Robert Donat - Madeleine Carroll - Lucie Mannheim
What to drink A Glenlivet, a Glenmorangie, or any other good Scotch whisky
