The Thirty-Nine Steps / The Lady Vanishes

Includes: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)This third screen adaptation of John Buchan’s novel hews to it’s pre-WWI setting and offers Robert Powell as Richard Hannay, the mining engineer whose involvement with an ex-intelligence neighbor finds him on the run from Prussian spies and striving to keep his pursuers from triggering global conflict. Nailbiter marked by a thrilling conclusion within Big Ben co-stars David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills. 102 min. C/Rtg: PG The Lady Vanishes (1979)American heiress Amanda (Cybill Shepherd) travelling by train through Germany befriends Miss Froy, an English nanny (Angela Lansbury) she meets on board. But when the woman disappears and no one seems to remember seeing her, Amanda seeks help from a magazine photographer (Elliott Gould) and uncovers a deadly mystery. Lighthearted remake, set in 1938, of the Hitchcock suspense classic also stars Herbert Lom, Ian Carmichael. 100 min. C/Rtg: PG Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; featurettes; theatrical trailers. Region Free