Review: The 39 Steps
 

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The 39 Steps gives meaning to the term ?wearing many hats,? since a cast of four assumes dozens of roles, including traveling corset salesmen, spies, police, alluring women and railroad conductors. Playwright Patrick Barlow?s revisionist adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock?s 1935 spy thriller was based on a novel by Scotsman John Buchan, penned during World War I, when German spies could have been hiding anywhere.?