DVD: The Thirty-Nine Steps

A real masterpiece, in The Thirty-Nine Steps Hitchcock is completely in control of all the elements and he - and we - have a lot of fun with them. Bursting with humour, suspense, sparkling sexy dialogue and unexpected set-pieces, it is entertainment without parallel. But is it high art? I think that such churlishness is out of order and irrelevant: if entertainment can cross cultural and generational boundaries for over seventy years, it must be art...