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The 39 Steps (1935): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.6IMDb
96%Tomatometer
93Metacritic
7.3TMDB

The 39 Steps is a 1935 mystery, thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 93 on Metacritic, 7.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 93, a gap of 17 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 6 of 85 films from 1935 in our catalog and number 125 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie.

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