Post by millar70 on Jun 30, 2021 22:33:58 GMT
My man Orson Welles was quite critical of Hitchcock, especially the later American years, but he is on record saying that this film was incredible.
Welles and the Mercury Theater did a radio version of The 39 Steps a few years after this film, but kept their version much closer to the original novel without the female characters.
At the end of the broadcast, Welles came on and something like, if you wanted to see certain characters that weren't in our production, go ask Alfred Hitchcock.
Welles, of course, like Hitchcock, had no problem creating new characters for stories that he was turning into his films.
Welles and the Mercury Theater did a radio version of The 39 Steps a few years after this film, but kept their version much closer to the original novel without the female characters.
At the end of the broadcast, Welles came on and something like, if you wanted to see certain characters that weren't in our production, go ask Alfred Hitchcock.
Welles, of course, like Hitchcock, had no problem creating new characters for stories that he was turning into his films.