Lights visible when police search the train.
Shadow of microphone visible on wood panelling in hotel room.
When Professor Jordan suggests Richard Hannay commit suicide, he says "What if I leave you alone with this revolver?" when he is clearly brandishing a small-caliber semi-auto pistol.
The serial number of the autogyro has been reversed, showing that the stock shot has been reversed for effect.
The date in the Church Hymnary that stopped the bullet is signed by Margaret in 1928, but is dated 1932.
The sideways shots into the car that Richard and Pamela are travelling in with the detectives uses the same view across a loch, even though the following shots show they are nowhere near water.
Just before Professor Jordan shoots Hannay, his revolver impossibly switches from his left to right hand.
Near the beginning of the film in the scene with the Memory Man entertaining the audience by answering their questions a woman yells out, "Who is the last British Heavyweight champion of the world?".
Beside her is a man who mouths the woman's words in synch with her.
Hannay gets the train from London to Scotland, but the train on that journey is seen bursting out of Box Tunnel near Bath, which is nowhere near the line from London to Scotland.
The locomotive changes from a London and North-Eastern one, with a prominent sign "Flying Scotsman" above the smoke-box door, to a Great Western one, with no "Flying Scotsman" sign.
During the scenes where Hannay and Pamela are hiding under the waterfall to escape the police, Hannay's free hand is in his pocket on the close ups, but against the rock behind him in the long shots.
Memory stops speaking and flinches before the shot is fired.
During Mr Memory's act at the beginning of the film, he gives an answer regarding the last British heavyweight boxing champion and then asks "Am I right, sir?", but the question was asked by a woman.
In the Music Hall scene, Donat's stand-in is clearly sitting in his place in the audience on at least two occasions.
Remakes can be hard to judge, especially if the remake in question is of something regarded as a classic. The 1959 version of The 39 Steps is one such example.
Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian visitor in London meets Annabella Smith (Lucie Mannheim) at a music hall.She's running away from the secret agents and gets killed at his flat.
Over nearly a century, John Buchan's novel The 39 Steps and its film versions has become something of a classic of the thriller genre. Famously filmed originally by Alfred Hitchcock, this 2008 BBC TV movie version is the fourth and most recent film version of the novel.
I have to admit that having watched this tonight on BBC1 as part of their Christmas line-up I was incredibly disappointed. The story was changed dramatically from both the 1930s and the 1970s versions, the dynamic action that appeared in both previous well-known incarnations was lacking.
I suppose that i am biased given that having seen Hitchs version i think that this is one of the great films of all time.I tried to watch this TV version with an open mind.
I was looking forward to this, but it was a big letdown.It started quite well with the scenes in Hannay's flat, but the chase was full of nonsense.
Well, it touched the right bases and looked the part. Rupes is a traditionally handsome hero.
***SPOILER ALERT*** Hitchcock's 1935 version of 'The 39 Steps' played fast and loose with John Buchan's novel by introducing a plausible and intriguing love interest in a 1930s setting, a nerve-shredding escape on the Forth Rail Bridge and the quirky denouement of 'Mr Memory' at a Music Hall. These radical changes produced a fabulous movie, a pulsating chase thriller all played with great style and with real chemistry between the two leads, Robert Donat and Madeline Carroll.
I really don't understand why film makers feel the need to change the plot of books. Then if you apply this to an absolute classic it seems totally crazy.
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