"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."-Oscar Wilde

Hitchcocks film The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) blends comedy and suspense with a little bit of love in a now traditional Hitchcock way. Although it is one of his earliest, it was seen as his first breakthrough leading the way for more with the same style. Hitchcock has used this theme of "an average, innocent, ordinary man who is framed by circumstantial evidence and thrust against his will into an extraordinary situation that he doesn't understand," in many more of his films making the style his signature. The spy like story-line is intriguing and suspenseful. As Hitchcock says "What I liked about The 39 Steps were the sudden switches and the jumping from one situation to another with such rapidity."