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What are the thirty-nine steps? A question that almost every adaptation answers differently.
John Buchan was one of the world's first spy novelists, and did a similar job for the genre as [[
Unfortunately in later years he has not enjoyed similar popularity, though according to [[The Other Wiki]] his works have been seeing a resurgence in more recent times.
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* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Medina}} in ''The Three Hostages'', {{spoiler|who would have survived if he hadn't just disabled Hannay, the one man able to save him.}}
* [[Lady of Adventure]]: Mary, when duty calls.
* [[Locking MacGyver in
* [[Majorly Awesome]]: Hannay, during ''Greenmantle''.
* [[Master of Disguise]]: The [[Big Bad]] of ''Mr Standfast'' and Sandy Arbuthnot in ''Greenmantle'' and ''The Three Hostages''. To a lesser extent, Hannay and his friend Peter Pienaar in ''Greenmantle''.
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: In ''Greenmantle'' Hannay begins to unload one of these on Stumm. Averted in that his [[Unstoppable Rage]] evaporates once the fight is won:
{{quote| I had no particular ill-will left against Stumm. He was a man of remarkable qualities, which would have brought him to the highest distinction in the Stone Age.}}
* [[Officer and
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Justified good and proper. Taking on a new ''personality'' is more effective than new clothes. The only problem is that to successfully pose as [[Obfuscating Stupidity|harmless idiots]] the characters run the risk of [[Becoming the Mask]] and losing their intellectual edge!
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Even the [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Reasonable Authority Figures]] find it difficult to believe Hannay's wild story in ''The Thirty-Nine Steps''.
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: The stile scene.
* [[Loads and Loads of Roles]]: Four actors play every role in the movie, sometimes having to play two characters in the same scene. Traditionally it's one actor for the main character, one actress for all the attractive women, and two other actors for ''everything else''. {{spoiler|Scenery not excluded.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[North
** "Through the door?" No! Through the [[Rear Window]]!!"
** Lampshaded in one instance when two characters come to a ladder and the woman won't go up. "Why no- oh, [[Collective Groan|don't tell me]]. '' {{spoiler|[[Vertigo]].}}''"
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==== This [[Made for TV Movie|TV Movie]] contains examples of: ====
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]: Victoria}}
* [[Homage]]: The scene with the plane is a homage to that other [[Alfred Hitchcock]] classic ''[[North
* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: Hannay is chased by an aircraft not in service in 1914
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: It's got [[Mr. Fanservice|Rupert Penry-Jones]] in it, what do you expect?
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