2006-08-16 19:51:21 · 18 answers · asked by scopexsociety2006 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
bottom of my garden
2006-08-18 19:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by thuckgod 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The 39 steps were actually steps leading down from a cliff to a boat at a small village in Kent. The hero of the book, Richard Hanney, finds them very near the end of the book.
The steps lead to a yacht which the German conspiritors were planning to escape on. The heros are able to thwart their escape attempt though.
In the 1935 Hitchcock film the 39 steps actually refers to the evil organisation, rather than physical steps.
I haven't seen the 1959 film, but I believe that you never find out what the 39 steps are in that.
In the 1978 film the 39 steps are actually in the tower of Big Ben.
2006-08-17 03:13:12 · answer #2 · answered by Iain T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The 39 Steps is a secret organisation devoted to
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slump.
That's the Memory Man scene from the Hitchcock/ Robert Donat version.
In the Robert Powell version they were the steps up inside the Big Ben clock tower in London.
In the original, John Buchan book, they were steps leading from a house owned by a German spy-ring, down to a secret quayside.
2006-08-17 03:37:54 · answer #3 · answered by scotsman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the last 39 steps leading up to big ben
2006-08-17 03:01:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 39 steps were the number of steps to the face of the clock which the bell Big Ben (the tower anc clock is commonly called Big Ben) hangs
2006-08-17 03:24:15 · answer #5 · answered by break 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not going to repeat Iain T's answer, which seems to be the best one. The only answer I knew of was the organisation of spies. But I would recommend seeing the Hitchcock film, which is very good.
2006-08-17 03:27:19 · answer #6 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A book by John Buchan - made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
2006-08-17 03:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the film (Robert Donat version) they were a network of spies who were trying to get the plans for a new aircraft engine to an undisclosed European power.
2006-08-17 03:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I havent read the book, but in the original film they were an organisation of spies. Try and get the film out if you can.
2006-08-17 03:59:07 · answer #9 · answered by Thia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Detailed instructions of a communist plot. They were never fully revealed either the book or the film of the same name as it was the problems delivering them that was the plotline.
2006-08-17 08:15:32 · answer #10 · answered by Amanda K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They still are steps inside big ben
2006-08-17 05:03:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋