Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17319 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-02-21
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 652 minutes

Synopsis
A series of adventures featuring John Buchan's hero who first appeared in his novel, 'The Thirty Nine Steps' and set three years previously leading up to the First World War. Richard Hannay has already gained recognition as a military officer, a mining engineer and a successful prospector. After thirty years in Africa he returns to Britain to find a wife and setle down...

Customer Reviews

Quality Derring-Do!
John Buchan's hero Richard Hannay (played by Robert Powell) gets into all sorts of scrapes with spies, crooks and other undesirables. This an inventive series with a good period feel and an entertaining selection of stories. If you like spies, derring-do, and ripping yarns, then this is the boxed set for you. Recommended.

Plodding adventure series.
Richard Hannay is a wealthy engineer in the early 20th Century. Having made his fortune in South Africa he has returned to Britain to seek adventure.

We are treated to a good selection of stories and locations. It is all pretty tounge in cheek with no dramatic tension. I would have preferred to see a more comic or hard edged presentation, but it is interesting enough to watch.

If you prefer Agatha Christie to Sherlock Holmes then this is probably for you. Sherlockians take a gander at Cribb.

Super UK Series
Hannay - based on the Richard Hannay novies set in the 1914-1930 period is a super box set.
Great acting - good stories - well worth buying.
Good price too!