Topic: Richard Hannay
Photo by Michael Lamont Patrick Barlow's stage adaptation of "The 39 Steps" is a cheeky retelling, much along the lines of Monty Python, of Alfred...
Alfred Hitchcock 's The 39 Steps is a 1935 film adapted from the 1915 John Buchan novel of the same name. In the ensuing rush to the exits, Hannay encounters Annabella Smith (Lucie Mannheim ), who claims to possess knowledge of a spying ...
Robert Donat is arguably one of the greatest English actors, both on stage and film. " (Kenneth Barrow, Mr Chips The Life of Robert Donat, 1985, Methuen London)
Donat's fame and legacy is truly amazing and gratifying considering the short span he ...
Is it just me or is Fiona Bruce incredibly, incredibly annoying? The first occasion was when -- while breakfasting flirtatiously with Sir Alan on his private jet -- Fiona decided to show what a hard-headed reporter cum serious feminist she was by taking umbrage ...
'There's a dry wind blowing through the East and the parched grasses wait and spark.' This is not the sort of language we associate with a high-ranking official in the Foreign Office, but things were different in 1916. 'He had been ...
The good end-of-year news was that Home Truths on Radio Four (Saturdays) is to be taken off the air in the spring. Forcing myself to listen to one before Christmas, I managed to get through to the end, though there were many ...
"Richard Hannay," I would be suspected of Scudder's murder and the Boche would know I knew their plans. "You are in a pickle, Mr Hannay," he said. "Unaware of what a bizarre coincidence it was that I had been directed to ...
It doesn't take much tweaking for The 39 Steps to be played for laughs. From this, they produce "a minimum of" 150 characters - I lost count - and the recreation of such seminal scenes as Richard Hannay's escape on the Flying ...
