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| 2 | ''The 39 Steps'' is a TV movie done for the 2008 Christmas season by Creator/TheBBC, starring Rupert Penry-Jones. It's an adaptation of Creator/JohnBuchan's novel ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps''. |
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| 4 | Unlike the more famous [[Film/The39Steps1935 earlier adaptation]] by Creator/AlfredHitchcock, it keeps the novel's 1914 setting, but some liberties are taken to suit the 21st century idea of a proper spy thriller. |
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| 6 | !!This TV Movie contains examples of: |
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| 8 | * AnachronismStew: The scene where Hannay is chased by a biplane features a 1916 model fighter plane, and the car chases feature vehicles from the 1920s; the film-makers' excuse was that cars actually available in 1914 didn't have the oomph for an exciting chase. Then there's the building Hannay lives in (post-War Art Deco architecture) and the train he catches (a 1920s locomotive pulling 1950s carriages). |
| 9 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Victoria is apparently killed in the climactic fight, but the final scene reveals that she survived.]] |
| 10 | * {{Homage}}: The scene with the plane is a homage to that other Creator/AlfredHitchcock classic ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', which in turn owed much to Hitchcock's earlier adaptation of ... ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps''. |
| 11 | * NotHisSled: Unlike in the novel, the mysterious phrase "the 39 steps" [[spoiler:refers to a flight of stairs leading down to a Scottish loch]]. |
| 12 | * NumberOfObjectsTitle: The 39 steps, of course. |
| 13 | * ShirtlessScene: It's got Rupert Penry-Jones in it, what do you expect? |
| 14 | * TokenRomance: This version adds a romance with a young woman Hannay meets while he's on the run. |
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