The Thirty Nine Steps

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The Thirty Nine Steps ★★½ 1979

Hitchcock remake is a visually interesting, but mostly uninvolving, mystery. Powell is the man suspected of stealing plans to begin WWI. Above average, but not by much. 98m/C VHS, DVD . GB Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Andrew Keir; D: Don Sharp.