Movies: John Buchan

  • 1978
    The Thirty Nine Steps

    The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

    The Thirty Nine Steps

    6.71978HD

    The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussia...

    The Thirty Nine Steps
  • 1935
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps (1935)

    The 39 Steps

    7.31935HD

    Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy...

    The 39 Steps
  • 1977
    The Three Hostages

    The Three Hostages (1977)

    The Three Hostages

    01977HD

    Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover three hostages taken prisoner by a shadowy criminal organisation...

    The Three Hostages
  • 1959
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps (1959)

    The 39 Steps

    6.21959HD

    In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets....

    The 39 Steps
  • 2008
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps (2008)

    The 39 Steps

    6.52008HD

    Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the imp...

    The 39 Steps
  • 1927
    The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

    The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)

    The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

    6.31927HD

    The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructiona...

    The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
  • 1976
    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

    5.71976HD

    This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the Volcano. But while Lowry fought a winning battle with words, he lost his battle with alcohol. Shot on location...

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
  • 1927
    Huntingtower

    Huntingtower (1927)

    Huntingtower

    01927HD

    Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captor...

    Huntingtower