The 39 Steps
1935, NR, 87 min.
D: Alfred Hitchcock; with Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll.

This classic early Hitchcock is a spy drama laced with comic romantic touches. Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll are handcuffed together throughout most of the film and what begins testily winds up as love.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.