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Sabotage (1936)

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Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 7  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.3/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock once said suspense is like a bomb: The audience knows it's about to go off, but there's nothing they can do about it. (He also said, "There's no terror in the bang--only in the anticipation of it.") In this film, the director puts that simile to good use. Shy and unhappy Sylvia ... Alfred Hitchcock once said suspense is like a bomb: The audience knows it's about to go off, but there's nothing they can do about it. (He also said, "There's no terror in the bang--only in the anticipation of it.") In this film, the director puts that simile to good use. Shy and unhappy Sylvia Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) runs a small movie theater with her brooding husband, Karl (Oskar Homolka). Her young brother Stevie (Desmond Tester) lives with them and runs errands. Next door to the theater is a grocery where the charming and inquisitive clerk Ted Spencer (John Loder ) works. Ted gets to know and care for Mrs. Verloc, revealing that he is a Scotland Yard detective investigating Carl for his part in a criminal conspiracy and confirming the wife's nagging suspicions about her husband. As discovery and arrest approach, Carl assigns the unknowing young Stevie the errand of delivering a package containing a bomb. The torturously tense sequence that follows is among the most memorable in cinema history. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, John Loder, Desmond Tester, Matthew Boulton

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu
Screenwriter: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, Alma Reville, Helen Simpson
Composer: Louis Levy

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 18, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English

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We won't tell you what happens. That would be to cheat Mr. Hitchcock of his just reward, but it is a warning what you may expect -- which, as is the way of all Hitchcock melodramas, is the unexpected.

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Philip Martin
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Early Hitchcock soundie still stylish, still grabs

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Steve Crum
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Perhaps the best of the thrillers Alfred Hitchcock made in Britain before coming to the States.

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