The 39 Steps (Blu-ray) - The Criterion Collection

A man wrongly accused of murder (Robert Donat) goes on the run across Scotland, handcuffed to a suspicious blonde (Madeleine Carroll), to clear his name and expose a network of spies. Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of the chase thriller — fleet-footed, witty, and endlessly inventive — established the template for virtually every wrong-man espionage film that followed. A new 4K digital restoration preserves the film's crackling black-and-white photography.