The Thirty-nine Steps

Penry-Jones, but the entire film was very bland, and it felt like cutting corners in the suspense design. Even the male protagonist seemed absent-minded. Overall, it was not as good as other adaptations of "The Thirty-Nine Steps." The novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" by Scottish writer John Buchan tells the story of an Englishman named Hannay who has been living in Africa for many years and is accidentally involved in a spy case and steps forward to deal with the enemy. It immediately caused a sensation after being published in 1915, and has since been made into movies or television four times. Interestingly, every time it is adapted, the screenwriters often borrow classic scenes that appeared in the previous adaptation, so that some recurring plots are not actually from the original work. The meaning of the "Thirty-Nine Steps" has also been changed over and over again. By 2008, it had returned to the real "steps."