Top cast:Carlyle Blackwell,Alice Joyce,William Clarence Rowe
Director:Peter Hewitt
Genre:Drama
Region:Germany
Year:2021
Storyline:The intelligent, understated, alienating and disturbing film, set in the waning years of the highly-romanticized 50""s decade, is narrated in a flat, heartless, unsensational monotone voice by he film""s emotionally-immature, passive, childlike and naive 15 year-old character named Holly.At one point, his eyes roll upward into his head and he embraces a wooden post next to him.Later, he sprays a deck of cards and kisses the post, and then appears embarrassed by his ejaculatory responses.Hannay has not heard of the 39 Steps:Smith: Have you ever heard of the Thirty-Nine Steps?Hannay: No, what""s that - a pub?Smith: Never mind.[Note: it was a significant deviation from the actual annual tribute (alivefalcon bird) paid each year (until he year 1798) by the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem to the Spanish emperor.