WHAT TO BINGE ON TV Stream On! Hitchcock’s superb ‘The 39 Steps’

By Peter Hummers

I’m counting this as a “ Going Greene ” column because I learned, in W.J. West’s The Quest for Graham Greene , that one of Greene’s own favorite authors and early influences was the author John Buchan , who wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1915, which was adapted as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best early films, The 39 Steps .

THE 39 STEPS

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“These men will stop at nothing.” (Annabella Smith)

—At a London music hall theater, Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a regular bloke, is watching “Mr. Memory” (who seemed to be the Internet before the Internet) demonstrate his powers of fact recall by answering trivia questi

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