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Movie Info
A ring of saboteurs is causing havoc in London with a series of explosive terrorist attacks. Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka) is part of the group, but he maintains a cover as a kind movie theater owner. His wife (Sylvia Sidney) is beginning to suspect something, though, and so is Scotland Yard Detective Sgt. Ted Spencer (John Loder). What neither of them know, however, is that Verloc uses his wife's little brother (Desmond Tester) to deliver the bombs in film canisters.
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Genre: Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Producer: Michael Balcon
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Writer: Charles Bennett, E.V.H. Emmett, Jesse Lasky Jr., Helen Simpson
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Cine Art Pictures, Film Effects Inc. [ca], LS Video, Gaumont British Distributors, Century Video, Gaumont Pictures, Criterion Collection
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Production Co: Gaumont, Shepherd, Gaumont International
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Sound Mix: Fantasound
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)
Cast & Crew

Sylvia Sidney
Mrs. Verloc

Oscar Homolka
Karl Anton Verloc

Desmond Tester
Steve Verloc

John Loder
Detective Sgt. Ted Spencer

Joyce Barbour
Renee

Matthew Boulton
Scotland Yard Supt. Talbot

S.J. Warmington
Insp. Hollingshead, Scotland Yard

William Dewhurst
The Professor, A.F. Chatman Bird Shop Owner, Bomb Maker

Austin Trevor
Vladimir (uncredited)

Torin Thatcher
Yunct (uncredited)
Aubrey Mather
W. Brown & Sons greengrocer (uncredited)

Peter Bull
Michaelis (uncredited)

Charles Hawtrey
Youth at the Aquarium (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock
Director

Charles Bennett
Screenwriter

E.V.H. Emmett
Screenwriter

Jesse Lasky Jr.
Screenwriter

Helen Simpson
Screenwriter

Michael Balcon
Producer

Ivor Montagu
Associate Producer

Louis Levy
Original Music

Bernard Knowles
Cinematographer

Charles Frend
Film Editing

Oscar Frederick Werndorff
Art Director

Albert Jullion
Art Director

Joe Strassner
Costume Design

Louis Levy
Musical Director
Critic Reviews for Sabotage
Audience Reviews for Sabotage
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Jan 25, 2022One of Hitchcock's darkest movies but still deeply human and filled with idiosyncrasies. And yeah, the bomb sequence is masterful.
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Jul 23, 2018Hitchcock at his most ruthless in this tale of saboteurs in London told to step up their game after 'merely' blacking out the whole city because 'that wasn't big enough'. Things can only get direr after that. Hitch plays a lot with under-the-table messaging too as much of the action happens in a movie theater, and would Hitch use those moments to speak to us? You bet. Sylvia Sydney would never work with him again after this ratchet of tension.kevin w Super Reviewer
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Jun 04, 2016In this 1936 film from Alfred Hitchcock, a foreign terrorist group is operating in London, and their agent (Oskar Homolka) operates a movie theater as a cover, along with his unsuspecting wife (Sylvia Sidney) and her teenage brother. Homolka is suitably creepy, glowering behind bushy eyebrows, and the kitten-faced Sidney may remind you of Myrna Loy. Scotland Yard is on to Homolka, and their man (John Loder) spies on him and cozies up to the family in an attempt to learn more. Unfortunately, with the exception of a couple of scenes, the film is rather slow and sedate, and is only of interest because it's one of Hitchcock's early pre-Hollywood efforts. Spoiler alert from here on. Hitchcock does provide tension in the pivotal sequence where, because of police surveillance, Homolka is forced to send the young boy out to deliver a package containing a bomb. He emphasizes the importance of getting to his destination by 1:30, knowing the bomb is set to go off at 1:45, but of course the boy doesn't know that and ends up being delayed on his way (comically being dragged into a demonstration by a peddler of toothpaste and shampoo at one point). While we feel the suspense, Hitchcock as a younger director exercises no restraint at all, melodramatically increasing the volume of the music and showing us the time on clocks repeatedly as it gets closer and closer to 1:45. To Hitchcock's credit (or Joseph Conrad's, the author of the story) the bomb does go off, and it is a little shocking even today. Imagine what the reaction was like in 1936 to have an innocent boy, one moment playing with a puppy on a bus, the next minute gone, along with all of the other passengers. The shock presages other Hitchcock moments, such as the shower scene in Psycho. Unfortunately, in the wake of this, the emotional reaction of the characters doesn't ring true, though it does lead to what I think was the best scene in the movie - the mother thinking her son is running towards her on the street, which for a split second has us somehow believing, as she does, that he's survived. Watch it for the bomb scene and for Sylvia Sidney, but it's certainly not a classic.
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Mar 26, 2016Hitchcock knows how to combine an espionage plot with humor, and this film can also be very tense (especially in a key scene of a boy carrying a package throughout the city and on a bus), even if it is not always so effective and suffers a bit from some weak narrative choices.
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