Sabotage

1937

1h 17m

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6.7/10

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Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

Directors

Alfred Hitchcock

Writers

Joseph Conrad(novel by)

Charles Bennett(screenplay by)

Helen Simpson(dialogue by)

Stars

Sylvia Sidney

Oskar Homolka

Desmond Tester

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Sylvia Sidney

Mrs. Verloc

Oskar Homolka

Karl Verloc - Her Husband

Desmond Tester

Stevie - Her Young Brother

John Loder

Ted

Joyce Barbour

Renee

Matthew Boulton

Superintendent Talbot

S. J. Warmington

Hollingshead

William Dewhurst

The Professor

Clare Greet

Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

Aubrey Mather

Greengrocer (uncredited)

Austin Trevor

Monocle Man (uncredited)

Charles Hawtrey

Studious Youngster (uncredited)

Martita Hunt

The Professor's Daughter (uncredited)

Torin Thatcher

Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited)

Peter Bull

Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock

Man Walking Past the Cinema as the Light Is Renewed

Directors

Alfred Hitchcock

Writers

Joseph Conrad(novel by)

Charles Bennett(screenplay by)

Helen Simpson(dialogue by)

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7/10

Perhaps not one of Hitchcock's most prominent films, but it's a tense crime thriller telling the tale of a family of recent émigrés to Britain who are struggling to run their small London cinema. Oskar Homolka ("Mr. Verloc") falls foul of some criminals who offer to pay him for carrying out an act of sabotage. This doesn't quite cause the mayhem they desire so he is unwittingly, this time, involved a much more deadly action. Unbeknown to him, Scotland Yard are on to them and have planted a detective (John Loder) in the greengrocers who befriends the family. The plot unfolds slowly and tensely. Loder and ("Mrs. Verloc") a slightly dewy-eyed Sylvia Sidney fall for each other as we go along. That storyline slightly districts from the suspense and the ending comes along a bit too rapidly for me. Great to watch, though...

Geronimo196728 Mar, 2022