Double Feature
The 39 Steps (1935)
A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors – a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued – as well as into an unexpected romance with the cool Pamela (Madeline Carroll). This classic wrong-man thriller from the Master of Suspense anticipates the director’s most famous works (especially North by Northwest), and remains one of his cleverest and most entertaining films. (American Genre Film Archive)
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Starring
- Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
- Year
- 1935
- Country
- UK
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 86 minutes
Sabotage (1936)
One of the most playful of Hitchcock’s British thrillers, Sabotage doesn’t waste one second of its taut 77-minute runtime, ratcheting up the suspense in pointillistically beautiful ways. Sylvia Sidney is the unsuspecting wife of a London cinema owner (Oskar Homolka) whom a Scotland Yard detective (John Loder) comes to believe is behind a string of terrorist attacks. The gripping centerpiece – involving a boy, a film canister and a ticking time bomb – is one of the most heart-stopping moments of pure suspense in all of Hitchcock’s canon. (American Genre Film Archive)
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Starring
- Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder
- Year
- 1936
- Country
- UK
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 76 minutes