When it played London last year, the stage show The 39 Steps bore the full title John Buchan's The 39 Steps, in reference to the author of the 1915 spy novel. But now that it's on Broadway, the show is called Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, a belated acknowledgement not only that the novel is only remembered now as source material for the 1935 Hitchcock classic, but that the play, by Patrick Barlow, is more an adaptation of the movie than of the book.
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