三十九级台阶 (1978)
The Thirty Nine Steps
故事发生在世界大战爆发前夕，英国人理查德（罗伯特·鲍威尔 Robert Powell 饰）是一名工程师，一次偶然中，他获得了前英国特工人员留下的密码，正义感极强的他决定揭穿德国间谍一手策划的刺杀阴谋，因此而遭到了德国间谍机构的猛烈追杀。 就这样，理查德踏上了逃亡的旅途，途中，他结识了议员的女儿帕梅拉（Karen Dotrice 饰），帕梅拉为身陷险境的理查德提供了保护和帮助，在此过程中，彼此吸引的两人渐渐走到了一起。在帕梅拉的帮助下，理查德最终同警方和反间谍机构搭上了线，并在紧要关头破译了手中的密码。他来到了伦敦大钟的机房内，在那里找到了控制恐怖炸弹的开关，拯救了成千上万人的性命。
演员阵容
- Robert Powell — Richard Hannay
- 大卫·沃纳 — Sir Edmund Appleton
- 埃里克·波特 — Chief Superintendent Lomas
- 凯伦·多特里斯 — Alex Mackenzie
- 约翰·米尔斯 — Scudder
- 乔治·贝克 — Sir Walter Bullivant
- 罗纳德·皮卡普 — Bayliss
- Donald Pickering — Marshall
- 提摩西·韦斯特 — Porton
- 迈尔斯·安德森 — David
- 安德鲁·基尔 — Lord Rohan
- 罗伯特·弗莱明 — Magistrate
趣闻
- 改编自：三十九級臺階
- 拍摄地：鬆木製片廠和摩瑞波恩站
The Thirty Nine Steps is a 1978 British thriller film directed by Don Sharp, with screenplay by British playwright Michael Robson, based on the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It was the third film version of the 1915 novel.
Production
Producer Greg Smith said he wanted to make the film because he had always been a fan of John Buchan's books and wanted to do a version of The Thirty-Nine Steps which was "true to the period in which the novel was set, just prior to the Great War, when Europe was one huge powderkeg and nobody knew what a world war was."
The executive producer was James Kenelm Clarke who said the film "was an Edwardian melodrama, the way we think Buchan would have liked to see his own penny dreadful." The rights became available when Rank did not renew the licence. Clarke bought them for what he said was "a tremendous amount of money", had a script written by Michael Robson, which he then took back to Rank. They agreed to finance when Robert Powell agreed to play Hannay.
Smith claimed "the Hitchcock version was about 20 percent Buchan and 80 percent Hitchcock. Our goal was to turn it around and make the film 80 percent Buchan and 20 percent invention." Smith chose Sharp to direct "because he's one of Britain's best action adventure directors and he was familiar with the period." Sharp had recently shot a remake of The Four Feathers with Powell. He said making the film was a very enjoyable experience.
Powell said "If we had tried to use Buchan's book literally we would not have had a film at all. For one thing it's thoroughly anti-Semitic and no one would get away with that."
Robert Powell was cast in part because of his success in the mini series Jesus of Nazareth. The script did add a romantic interest for Hannay, played by Karen Dotrice. "You can't make a movie without women", said Smith. "You can't go through life without women."
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