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      Saboteur

      1942, Mystery & thriller, 1h 48m

      31 Reviews 5,000+ Ratings

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      Movie Info

      Factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is wrongfully accused of setting a deadly fire at an airplane plant in an apparent act of sabotage. Kane believes that the fire was set by another worker (Norman Lloyd), and he travels across the country to find the mysterious saboteur. Along the way he is forced to take Patricia Martin (Priscilla Lane) hostage, but as he begins to earn her trust, she turns from an unwilling captive to a willing accomplice in his quest to help clear his name.

      • Rating: PG

      • Genre: Mystery & thriller

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Alfred Hitchcock

      • Producer: Frank Lloyd

      • Writer: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]

      • Production Co: Universal Pictures, Frank Lloyd Productions

      • Sound Mix: Mono

      • Aspect Ratio: 35mm

      Cast & Crew

      Bob Cummings
      Priscilla Lane
      Otto Kruger
      Alan Baxter
      Alma Kruger
      Vaughan Glaser
      Ian Wolfe
      Frances Carson
      Murray Alper
      Kathryn Adams
      Billy Curtis
      Charles Halton
      John Eldredge
      Selmer Jackson
      Emory Parnell
      Hans Conried
      Jack H. Skirball
      Frank Skinner
      Joseph A. Valentine
      Otto Ludwig
      Edward Curtiss
      Jack Otterson
      Russell A. Gausman
      Fred Frank
      Vernon Keays

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      • Jan 19, 2021

        Plays like an early draft of "North by Northwest". There are scenes that are little too earnest and sentimental but I think Hitchcock had to let those happen to get away with the more cynical material (i.e. the blatant distrust of any authority) and the weirder gags.

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      • May 29, 2017

        Perhaps the most disappointing Hitchcock film. Some of plot points are preposterous andRobert Cummings can't carry the movie. Despite the bad there are some classic Hitchcock set pieces (Statue of Liberty) and images.

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      • Mar 09, 2017

        Far from essential Hitchcock, "Saboteur" is another jaunt through the director's favored "wrongly accused" scenario. The film was shot during wartime, so naturally the central crime is in a related sphere, allowing the script to slide in a patriotic speech here and there. Robert Cummings is accused of bombing the aircraft factory where he works, framed by the young Norman Lloyd (remember him on "St. Elsewhere," decades later?) in his feature-film debut. This leads to an erratic hitchhiking trip across the country, full of bizarre episodes (I'm guessing this is the only Hitchcock film with Siamese twins in its cast) and implausible transitions. Eventually, a high-society ring of terrorists emerges. Cummings' love interest is one Priscilla Lane, who can roam the roads for days without showering or a clothing change and yet sustain immaculately styled hair. Otto Kruger steals the movie as a slick, subtle villain who never drops his charming smile and speaks only in subtext. The climactic confrontation atop the Statue of Liberty is a classic Hitchcock scene, but not enough to save the film.

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      • Mar 28, 2016

        Another decent piece of American propaganda made by Hitchcock during WWII following his Foreign Correspondent - and certainly a more consistent film than that one -, despite some trouble with pacing and the fact that for about every two or three hits, there is a miss.

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