Scudder, who claims to be in hot pursuit of a cabal of German undercover agents. He soon encounters an American freelance spy, Franklin P. The original novel finds Hannay returning to London from Africa on the stressful eve of the First World War. It’s the fourth film based on Buchan’s thriller, the most famous of the previous productions being Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 version, which starred Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, an “accidental hero who foils a German plot on the eve of World War I,” to quote from the Times. As The New York Times reports, a 90-minute BBC-TV adaptation of Scottish author John Buchan’s 1915 adventure novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps-first broadcast in Britain back in 2008-will debut on American television tomorrow night, Sunday, February 28, carried by PBS-TV stations. I’ve been waiting for a while to post this, and now seems like an appropriate occasion.
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