A theatrical version of this work, adapted by Patrick Barlow, is currently playing on Broadway, albeit it as a comedy. In the 1978 black & white film version of this work directed by Don Sharp, Robert Powell playing the main character is dangling from the minute hand in the Big Ben tower scene. That version is considered the most faithful to the original source, while the 1959 color version directed by Ralph Thomas ends at the Palace Music Hall where Robert Hannay asks Mr. Memory what the title subject means. In the original source, a 1915 novel written by a Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, the title refers to a specific number of the title action taken. For 10  points, name this work the most famous version of which was a film directed in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock.
A theatrical version of this work, adapted by Patrick Barlow, is currently playing on Broadway, albeit it as a comedy. In the 1978 black & white film version of this work directed by Don Sharp, Robert Powell playing the main character is dangling from the minute hand in the Big Ben tower scene. That version is considered the most faithful to the original source, while the 1959 color version directed by Ralph Thomas ends at the Palace Music Hall where Robert Hannay asks Mr. Memory what the title subject means. In the original source, a 1915 novel written by a Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, the title refers to a specific number of the title action taken. For 10  points, name this work the most famous version of which was a film directed in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock.
A theatrical version of this work, adapted by Patrick Barlow, is currently playing on Broadway, albeit it as a comedy.
The Thirty-Nine Steps