Dial P for Podcast #4: The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young & Innocent

Good evening. Welcome back to Dial P for Podcast, Patrick Ripoll's year-long chronological voyage through the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Every month Patrick will be watching four Hitchcock features and talking about them here, from The Pleasure Garden to Family Plot, all across the year of 2026, examining the life and work of England's most famous cinema pervert. For episode 4 we find Alfred Hitchcock a newly christened international film star, taking the magic formula he discovered in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) in four very different configurations, with four very different results, as we discuss the ground crumbling from under him at Gaumont Studios. Also: his top three favorite methods of being a hideous creep at parties! Spies and bystanders, codes and MacGuffins, the Scottish Highlands to the Swiss Alps to Picadilly Circus, this episode finds Hitch sharpening the Hitchcockian thriller to a fine point, as well as discarding some truly useless pencil shavings! 0:00 - 0:35 - Intro Music 0:36 - 1:35:56 - The 39 Steps (1935) 1:35:57 - 2:06:51 - Secret Agent (1936) 2:06:52 - 2:58:11 - Sabotage (1936) 2:58:12 - 3:22:34 - Young & Innocent (1937) 3:22:35 - 3:23:46 - Outro Music

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Dial P for Podcast #4: The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young & Innocent is an episode from Director's Club by Jim Laczkowski.

This episode is 03:23:47 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2026.

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