Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both ...

It is not the first time that the novel has been brought to life on screen, however; The 39 Steps was famously turned into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1953, and it has been adapted a few times ...