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* UsefulNotes/BFITop100BritishFilms: #4
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* BigNameFan: This was one of Creator/OrsonWelles' favourite Hitchcock films, and of it he said, "oh my God, what a masterpiece." In 1939, he starred in a radio adaption of the same source novel with The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input to Creator/AlfredHitchcock and writer Charles Bennett as they expanded Pamela's character.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll Creator/MadeleineCarroll was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input to Creator/AlfredHitchcock and writer Charles Bennett as they expanded Pamela's character.
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* TheDanza: The Scottish crofter and his wife are named John and Margaret. They're played by John Laurie and [[Creator/PeggyAshcroft Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft]].
* EnforcedMethodActing: Before filming the scene where Creator/RobertDonat) and Madeleine Carroll run through the countryside, Creator/AlfredHitchcock handcuffed them together and pretended for several hours to have lost the key in order to put them in the right frame of mind for such a situation.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Before filming the scene where Creator/RobertDonat) and Madeleine Carroll run through the countryside, Creator/AlfredHitchcock handcuffed them together and pretended for several hours to have lost the key in order to put them in the right frame of mind for such a situation.
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* TheDanza: The Scottish crofter and his wife are named John and Margaret. They're played by John Laurie Creator/JohnLaurie and [[Creator/PeggyAshcroft Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft]].
* EnforcedMethodActing: Before filming the scene where Creator/RobertDonat) andMadeleine Carroll Creator/MadeleineCarroll run through the countryside, Creator/AlfredHitchcock handcuffed them together and pretended for several hours to have lost the key in order to put them in the right frame of mind for such a situation.
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** Madeleine Carroll, a specialist in playing refined, elegant women, as uptight, feisty Pamela, who becomes the ScrewballComedy foil for Richard, and takes on a ButtMonkey role in the process.
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** Madeleine Carroll, Creator/MadeleineCarroll, a specialist in playing refined, elegant women, as uptight, feisty Pamela, who becomes the ScrewballComedy foil for Richard, and takes on a ButtMonkey role in the process.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input to Creator/AlfredHitchcock and writer Charles Bennett as they expanded Pamela's character,
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input to Creator/AlfredHitchcock and writer Charles Bennett as they expanded Pamela's character,character.
* BigNameFan: This was one of Creator/OrsonWelles' favourite Hitchcock films, and of it he said, "oh my God, what a masterpiece." In 1939, he starred in a radio adaption of the same source novel with The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/AlfredHitchcock always regarded this as one of his favorite movies.
* BigNameFan: This was one of Creator/OrsonWelles' favourite Hitchcock films, and of it he said, "oh my God, what a masterpiece." In 1939, he starred in a radio adaption of the same source novel with The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/AlfredHitchcock always regarded this as one of his favorite movies.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Before filming the scene where Creator/RobertDonat) and Madeleine Carroll run through the countryside, Creator/AlfredHitchcock handcuffed them together and pretended for several hours to have lost the key in order to put them in the right frame of mind for such a situation.
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* FakeNationality: Brit Creator/RobertDonat as the Canadian Richard Hannay, plus some English actors playing Scots (though the main Scottish character, the farmer, was played by Scotsman John Laurie).
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* FakeNationality: Brit Creator/RobertDonat as the Canadian Richard Hannay, plus some Hannay.
* FakeScot: Some English actors playing Scots (though the main Scottish character, the farmer, was played by ScotsmanJohn Laurie).Creator/JohnLaurie).
* FakeScot: Some English actors playing Scots (though the main Scottish character, the farmer, was played by Scotsman
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* TheDanza: A FreezeFrameBonus of the inscription inside the farmer's hymnbook reveals that the farmer is named John and his wife is named Margaret. They're played by John Laurie and [[Creator/PeggyAshcroft Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft]].
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* TheDanza: A FreezeFrameBonus of the inscription inside the farmer's hymnbook reveals that the farmer is The Scottish crofter and his wife are named John and his wife is named Margaret. They're played by John Laurie and [[Creator/PeggyAshcroft Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft]].
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll, who was best-known for playing refined, elegant women, was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input while the role of Pamela was expanded into more of a ScrewballComedy-type figure who plays a bit of a ButtMonkey role in the story.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll, who was best-known for playing refined, elegant women, Carroll was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input while the role of Pamela was to Creator/AlfredHitchcock and writer Charles Bennett as they expanded into more of a ScrewballComedy-type figure who plays a bit of a ButtMonkey role in the story.Pamela's character,
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* PlayingAgainstType:
** Madeleine Carroll, a specialist in playing refined, elegant women, as uptight, feisty Pamela, who becomes the ScrewballComedy foil for Richard, and takes on a ButtMonkey role in the process.
** Godfrey Tearle in a rare villain role as Professor Jordan. Earlier in his career he was a frequent romantic lead, and by 1935 he tended to play respectable pillars of English society. Years after this film he even played UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt (in 1947's ''The Beginning or The End'').
** Madeleine Carroll, a specialist in playing refined, elegant women, as uptight, feisty Pamela, who becomes the ScrewballComedy foil for Richard, and takes on a ButtMonkey role in the process.
** Godfrey Tearle in a rare villain role as Professor Jordan. Earlier in his career he was a frequent romantic lead, and by 1935 he tended to play respectable pillars of English society. Years after this film he even played UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt (in 1947's ''The Beginning or The End'').
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll, who was best-known for playing refined, elegant women, was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input while the role of Pamela was expanded into more of a ScrewballComedy-type figure.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll, who was best-known for playing refined, elegant women, was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input while the role of Pamela was expanded into more of a ScrewballComedy-type figure.figure who plays a bit of a ButtMonkey role in the story.
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** Hitchcock pursued adapting two of John Buchan's other Richard Hannay novels at various points. ''Greenmantle'' would've starred Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman, while ''The Three Hostages'' would've been his response to Franchise/JamesBond instead of ''Film/TornCurtain''. In both cases he couldn't secure the rights to the books.
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** Hitchcock pursued adapting two of John Buchan's other Richard Hannay novels at various points. ''Greenmantle'' would've starred Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman, while ''The Three Hostages'' would've been Hostages'', which he re-read in 1964, was going to be his response to Franchise/JamesBond instead of ''Film/TornCurtain''.(and possibly ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'', with which it shares some common elements). In both cases he couldn't secure the rights to the books.
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* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Maybe not preferred, but John Buchan liked the film despite the liberties it took with the novel.
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* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Maybe not preferred, but John Buchan liked the film despite the liberties it took with the novel. He particularly applauded the addition of Pamela as a character.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Madeleine Carroll, who was best-known for playing refined, elegant women, was eager to [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and gave lots of input while the role of Pamela was expanded into more of a ScrewballComedy-type figure.
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* FollowTheLeader: In a lot of ways, this film is Creator/AlfredHitchcock taking the novel of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', then adding some elements of ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'', released one year earlier.
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* FollowTheLeader: In a lot of ways, this film is Creator/AlfredHitchcock taking the novel of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', then adding some elements of ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'', released one year earlier. In fact, in an interview at the time, Madeleine Carroll specifically compared Pamela to Creator/ClaudetteColbert's character from the film, Ellie Andrews.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hitchcock pursued adapting two of John Buchan's other Richard Hannay novels at various points. ''Greenmantle'' would've starred Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman, while ''The Three Hostages'' would've been his response to Franchise/JamesBond instead of ''Film/TornCurtain''. In both cases he couldn't secure the rights to the books.
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** Hitchcock briefly considered following up the 1956 remake of ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'' with a remake of this film, but then learned that [[Film/The39Steps1959 someone else beat him to the punch in putting the concept into development]]. Since ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' is in many ways a loose remake, you can say Hitchcock didn't really drop the idea after all.
** Hitchcock pursued adapting two of John Buchan's other Richard Hannay novels at various points. ''Greenmantle'' would've starred Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman, while ''The Three Hostages'' would've been his response to Franchise/JamesBond instead of ''Film/TornCurtain''. In both cases he couldn't secure the rights to thebooks.books.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: When filming began, the ending still hadn't been decided, and Pamela hadn't really been fleshed out as a character, so it was up to Hitchcock and writer Charles Bennett to work things out.
** Hitchcock briefly considered following up the 1956 remake of ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'' with a remake of this film, but then learned that [[Film/The39Steps1959 someone else beat him to the punch in putting the concept into development]]. Since ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' is in many ways a loose remake, you can say Hitchcock didn't really drop the idea after all.
** Hitchcock pursued adapting two of John Buchan's other Richard Hannay novels at various points. ''Greenmantle'' would've starred Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman, while ''The Three Hostages'' would've been his response to Franchise/JamesBond instead of ''Film/TornCurtain''. In both cases he couldn't secure the rights to the
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: When filming began, the ending still hadn't been decided, and Pamela hadn't really been fleshed out as a character, so it was up to Hitchcock and writer Charles Bennett to work things out.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hitchcock pursued adapting two of John Buchan's other Richard Hannay novels at various points. ''Greenmantle'' would've starred Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman, while ''The Three Hostages'' would've been his response to Franchise/JamesBond instead of ''Film/TornCurtain''. In both cases he couldn't secure the rights to the books.
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* CreatorPreferredAdaptation: Maybe not preferred, but John Buchan liked the film despite the liberties it took with the novel.
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* FollowTheLeader: In a lot of ways, this film is Creator/AlfredHitchcock taking the novel of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', then adding some elements of ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'', released one year earlier.
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* TheDanza: A FreezeFrameBonus of the inscription inside the farmer's hymnbook reveals that the farmer is named John and his wife is named Margaret. They're played by John Laurie and [[Creator/PeggyAshcroft Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft]].
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* FakeNationality: Brit Creator/RobertDonat as the Canadian Richard Hannay, plus some English actors playing Scots (though the main Scottish character, the farmer, was played by Scotsman John Laurie).
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* UsefulNotes/BFITop100BritishFilms: #4
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* ScienceMarchesOn: The secret being smuggled out is implied to be a silent bomber engine, useful at a time when the only means of detecting attacking bombers was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_location acoustic location]]. As it happened though there really ''was'' a secret being protected at the time that would make such an invention obsolete -- radar.
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