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The 39 Steps   1959         N/R, 93 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller aka: The Thirty-Nine Steps Director: Ralph Thomas   Cast: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda De Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook, Michael Goodliffe, James Hayter, Duncan Lamont, Jameson Clark, Andrew Cruickshank, Leslie Dwyer, Sid James, Betty Henderson, Joan Hickson   This is an entertaining remake of the 1935 Hitchcock classic. Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) inadvertently becomes involved in espionage and murder after attending a vaudeville show with a young nanny (Faith Brook). Violence erupts at the show, and Richard takes the nanny to his home where she is stabbed by an assailant and is killed—but not before telling Richard that he has only two days to stop an espionage plot. And the race against time begins. Cast Kenneth More Richard Hannay Taina Elg Fisher Brenda De Banzie Nellie Lumsden Barry Jones Professor Logan Reginald Beckwith Lumsden Faith Brook Nannie Michael Goodliffe Brown James Hayter Mr. Memory Duncan Lamont Kennedy Jameson Clark McDougal Andrew Cruickshank Sheriff Leslie Dwyer Milkman Sid James Perce Betty Henderson Mrs. McDougal Joan Hickson Miss Dobson