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The 39 Steps
1935
· Movie
· 86 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #524
- IMDb #910
- Rotten Tomatoes #504
- Metacritic #168
- Letterboxd #1202
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #333
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1142
- Metacritic Critics #116
- Metacritic Audience #679
- Criticker #501
- Kinopoisk #1547
- AlloCiné #743
- Trakt #1891
Every rating
64–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Canadian man in London meets a woman who claims to be a spy. When she is murdered in his apartment, he becomes the prime suspect and must go on the run. He tries to clear his name by uncovering the secrets of a spy organization called "The 39 Steps," all while evading the police and the real enemy agents.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Based on
- The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
- Released
- 6 June 1935
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $75.0K
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Awards
3 wins & 1 nomination total
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