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100 Classic Movies To Watch Before You Die!

May 9th, 2018   |   Updated on June 30th, 2022

63. The 39 Steps (1935)

Storyline:

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl’s murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.

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