<<< The origin of Eve Kendall in Hitchcock's own
past work is explicit enough. She succeeds
the prim, good-looking, blond stranger in THE
THIRTY-NINE STEPS whom an earlier Hitchcock
hero had met on a train as he was trying to
elude the police and get to a person who could
clear him of the suspicion of having put a knife
in someone's back;

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
the picture of marriage in the final shot
of THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS; The man puts his
arm around the woman with the handcuffs still
dangling from his wrist, a picture suggesting
that marriage is a kind of voluntary handcuffing
(a portable version of the ball and chain).

The 39 Steps
'It's going to be a long night and I don't
particularly like the book I've started.
Know what I mean?'

North by Northwest
North by Northwest