out onto the face of the clock and physically stops the minute hand as it moves towards the figure IX. By hanging from the end of the minute hand, Hannay manages to jam the clock at 11.44am long enough for the police to break into the clock room where they kill the remaining spies and deactivate the bomb. The clock mechanism stops working and the clock's minute hand falls into a vertical position, but Hannay hangs on and one of the officers saves him with a looped rope. Lomas recognises a River Police uniform and at the docks Hannay and other officers capture Appleton, who had also stolen details of the deployment of all Royal Navy ships. Sir Edmund Appleton is convicted of treason and Richard Hannay is declared a hero for helping Britain gain valuable time to prepare for the Great War. In the closing shot, Hannay is shown walking arm in arm with Alex Mackenzie. Cast Robert Powell as Richard Hannay David Warner as Sir Edmund Appleton Eric Porter as Chief Superintendent Lomas Karen Dotrice as Alex Mackenzie John Mills as Scudder George Baker as Sir Walter Bullivant Ronald Pickup as Bayliss Donald Pickering as Marshall Timothy West as Porton Miles Anderson as David Hamilton Andrew Keir as Lord Rohan Robert Flemyng as Magistrate William Squire as Harkness Paul McDowell as McLean David Collings as Tillotson John Normington as Fletcher John Welsh as Lord Bellhane Edward de Souza as Woodville Tony Steedman as Admiral John Grieve as P.C. Forbes Donald Bisset as Renfrew Derek Anders as Donald Oliver Maguire as Marlins Joan Henley as Lady Nettleship Prentis Hancock as Perryman Leo Dolan as Milkman James Garbutt as Miller Artro Morris as The Scott Robert Gillespie as Crombie Raymond Young as Guide Paul Jerricho as P.C. Scott Michael Bilton as Vicar Production Producer Greg Smith said he wanted to make the film because he had always been a fan of John Buchan's books and wanted to do a version of The Thirty-Nine Steps which was "true to the period in which the novel was set, just prior to the Great War, when Europe was one huge powderkeg and nobody knew what a world war was." Smith claimed "the Hitchcock version was about 20 percent Buchan and 80 percent Hitchcock. Our goal was to turn it around and make the film 80 percent Buchan and 20 percent invention." Smith chose