Editing The Thirty-Nine Steps (section)

=== Film ===
==== ''The 39 Steps'' (1935) ====
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The 1935 black-and-white film directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] deviates substantially from the book.<ref name="39StepsHitchcockGuide"/> It stars [[Robert Donat]] as Hannay and [[Madeleine Carroll]] as a woman he meets on the train.<ref>{{IMDb name|0026029|The 39 Steps (1935)}}</ref> It is regarded by many critics as the best film version.<ref>[http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/1-10.html#4 The BFI 100] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517160653/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/1-10.html#4 |date=17 May 2012 }}</ref> This was one of several Hitchcock films based upon the idea of an "innocent man on the run", such as ''[[Saboteur (film)|Saboteur]]'' and ''[[North by Northwest]]''. In 1999, it came 4th in a [[BFI Top 100 British films|BFI poll]] of British films and in 2004 ''[[Total Film]]'' named it the 21st greatest British film of all time.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000229145115/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/1-10.html#4 "The BFI 100: The 39 Steps"]. BFI.</ref>

==== ''The 39 Steps'' (1959) ====
{{main article|The 39 Steps (1959 film)}}
The 1959 film directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] was the first colour version, starring [[Kenneth More]] as Hannay and [[Taina Elg]] as Miss Fisher.<ref name="39StepsHitchcockGuide"/> It is closely based on Hitchcock's adaptation, including the music-hall finale with "Mr. Memory" and Hannay's escape from a train on the [[Forth Bridge]], scenes not present in the book. It features a musical score by [[Clifton Parker]].

==== ''The Thirty Nine Steps'' (1978) ====
{{main article|The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 film)}}
The 1978 version was directed by [[Don Sharp]] and starred [[Robert Powell]] as Hannay, [[Karen Dotrice]] as Alex, [[John Mills]] as Colonel Scudder.<ref>{{IMDb name|0078389|The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)}}</ref> It is generally regarded as the closest to the book, being set at the same time as the novel, pre-Great War, but still bears little resemblance to Buchan's original story. Its climax bore no relation to the novel's denouement, instead seeing Hannay hanging from the hands of [[Big Ben]]. The film was followed by a spin-off television series, ''[[Hannay (TV series)|Hannay]]'', also starring Powell and featuring adventures occurring before the events in ''The Thirty-Nine Steps''.<ref name="39StepsHitchcockGuide"/>

==== ''The 39 Steps'' (2008) ====
{{Main article|The 39 Steps (2008 film)}}
The BBC commissioned a new television adaptation of the novel, scripted by [[Lizzie Mickery]] and produced by [[BBC Scotland]]'s drama unit.<ref>{{IMDb name|1282016|The 39 Steps (2008) (TV)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author= Rushton, Katherine|title= BBC plots 39 Steps remake|url= http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/08/bbc_to.html|work= [[Broadcast (magazine)|Broadcast Now]]|publisher= EMAP|date= 20 August 2008|access-date= 21 August 2008}}</ref> The 90-minute film stars [[Rupert Penry-Jones]], [[Lydia Leonard]], [[Patrick Malahide]] and [[Eddie Marsan]], and was first broadcast on 28 December 2008<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk52/bbc_one.shtml#bbcone_39steps|title=Network TV Programme Information BBC ONE Weeks 52/53|publisher=BBC|access-date=2 September 2013}}</ref> A romantic subplot was added to the story, featuring [[Lydia Leonard]]. The storyline only very tenuously follows that of the book, many characters being renamed, or omitted altogether. The film ends with a scene involving a submarine in a Scottish loch, rather than the original setting off the Kent coast, and the apparent death of one character.