I love this film. This is one of my favorite Hitchcock films as you can see him having fun with this film and really growing as a filmmaker.

Grade A+

B+

The 39 Steps is a classic Hitchcock thriller. While it's not one of his best films, I found it to be among his more enjoyable ones. I think one thing I liked about it was its relatively fast pace (thanks to a 82 minutes running time). It's really as standard of a Hitch film as it gets, but it feels more like a film setting the standards than one that is just being generic, if you know what I mean.

The movie doesn't take long to reveal its plot. Everything gets going pretty fast and there's a certain level of suspense throughout the whole film. The editing and the cinematography are great here once again, but I think that was really makes the film (as so often in Hitch's works) is the great chemistry of Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat. I think they play off each other very well, delivering several funny moments with each other.

Certainly, the twists are rather predictable and I definitely felt that the ending was madly rushed, but everything leading up to it was a very fun adrenaline-laden spy flick that I'm sure has elements that many other movies of this genre have copied in the years after it was released. I'd say this likely ranks among my Top 5 favorite Hitchcock films.