Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Following footsteps

In 2008 a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 movie The 39 Steps will be aired on Masterpiece Theatre this year. Spooks star Rupert Penry-Jones plays a British secret agent Richard Hannay who returns to London in May 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. Called by a freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder who has uncovered a German plot of the assassination of a Greek Premier.