On 15 January 2008, the show made its US Broadway premiere at the American Airlines Theatre; it transferred to the Cort Theatre on 29 April 2008 and then moved to the Helen Hayes Theatre on 21 January 2009, where it ended its run on 10 January 2010. When an East End gang demand protection money for Sal Alford's music-hall, she turns to Richard Hannay for help .

The Governments of Great Britain and Imperial Germany are in a race to arm themselves with modern battleships, but Hannay's arch-enemy, von Schwabing, has a plan to ensure that his country is the winner. Nostalgia Central covers the period 1950 to 1999 and contains some words and references which reflect the attitudes of those times and which may be considered culturally sensitive, offensive or inappropriate today.He finds himself caught up in a spy drama anyway, with the Germans hatching dastardly plots and poor Hannay getting himself repeatedly captured, tortured and threatened with certain death. During the events of Greenmantle, his work as a spy in wartime Europe and Turkey earn him a DSO and CB, respectively. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . Hannay was a ITV's 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which had starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay. Many of the episodes in this series gave the impression of having been awkwardly and hastily edited. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Greenmantle, the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps begins in late 1915, with Hannay in Hampshire where he has arrived to convalesce after Loos.

Hannay has been portrayed in four film versions of The Thirty Nine Steps respectively, by actors Robert Donat (in the original and most famous film adaptation, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935), Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones (in a 2008 BBC production). That movie was of course itself a reboot of the Alfred Hitchcock classic from the 1935 with Robert Donat in the Hannay role and the 1959 film version starring Kenneth More. He takes part in the Matabele Wars, [9] serves two years with the Imperial Light Horse [10] and serves as an intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay in the Boer War. It finds Powell reprising the role of Edwardian mining engineer turned crime-battling adventurer Richard Hannay - the character that he first played a decade earlier in the 1978 film version of John Buchan’s The Thirty Nine Steps. Represented in London by the cunning and ruthless Count Von Schwabing, Germany is intent on causing trouble however and wherever she can—and Richard Hannay attracts trouble as a magnet attracts iron-filings!

After nearly thirty years in southern Africa, Richard Hannay has achieved recognition as an officer in military intelligence, a mining engineer and a successful prospector. On the death of his friend, Pelham Swinburne, Hannay inherits a walking-stick, field glasses and the lighthouse on a Fenland marsh . Cole Porter was to be seen in the Ritz Bar, playing his unforgettable songs, while Fred Astaire danced on the London stage with the great George Gershwin himself at the piano. By using this service you thereby indemnify this Company, its employees, agents and affiliates against any loss or damage, in whatever manner, howsoever caused. Standfast, as well as a number of other such heroic characters, including Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Whodunit about the gentlemanly hero of John Buchan's novel `The 39 Steps,' a man who finds himself entangled in intrigue on a regular basis. Robert Powell reprises one of his most famous roles, that of Edwardian adventurer Richard Hannay, in this hit drama series spinning out of John Buchan's thrilling tales of derring-do most famously, the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps .This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you have advised this Company of the possibility of such potential loss), damage caused to your computer, computer software, systems and programs and the data thereon or any other direct or indirect, consequential and incidental damages. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.