Watched The 39 Steps last night. Absolutely delighted that in 1935, Hitchcock thought through what a modern audience would be waiting for and gave us a character announcing "we've a room, but there's only one bed".
(Same thing in North by Northwest as well. Man knew what clichés he liked.)
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Second favourite bit is the point where our protagonist has to improvise a political speech without knowing precisely a) who he is meant to be or b) whether the meeting was for the Liberals or the Conservatives https://youtu.be/aalwXQINtio
