Towne climbing THE 39 STEPS on television

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne (CHINATOWN) will write and direct a television version of THE 39 STEPS, based on a novel by John Buchan. The most famous version of the property was a 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that starred Robert Donat and Madeleine Carrol.

The story follows a Canadian visitor to England who meets a mysterious woman after watching a London play. The woman claims that she is a secret agent trying to elude dangerous men following her and that she needs help. The gentleman agrees to allow her to spend the night at his apartment. Furing the evening she is murdered. Now the man is fearful that he is being framed for the woman's death, and so he sets out to track down the spies that killed her and prove his innocence to the police.


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