![]() ![]() Colman is the only other guy who could have done this and other Donat parts. Of course Donat worked primarily in the UK and on stage while Colman was strictly a movie actor since the silent days. Donat and Ronald Colman rivaled for roles somewhat, they seem always to be cast as the same type of characters. Along the way Donat picks up a lovely and first unwilling traveling companion in Madeleine Carroll who is arguably the first of his blonde heroines. This one's a beauty with a wrongly accused of murder Robert Donat, running from London to Scotland and back again to find some spies to clear his name. There is no director in the history of the cinema who liked a good chase film better than Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock must have had a particular fondness for this film because I see elements of it North By Northwest, Saboteur, and Torn Curtain. Alfred Hitchcock followed up his first international success, The Man Who Knew Too Much with an even better film, The Thirty Nine Steps. ![]()
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