The Thirty Nine Steps (1980)

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa is shocked when one of his neighbours Colonel Scudder bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian sleeper agents are planning to prestart World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister However Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the sleepers Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudders death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a highplaced position in the British Government