Sabotage

1/11/19371h 17m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ … A bomb plot … A killing … Justice ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

london, england
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
bomb
black and white
sabotage
terrorist plot
brother sister relationship

Cast

Sylvia Sidney

~ as ~

Mrs. Verloc

Oskar Homolka

~ as ~

Karl Verloc - Her Husband

Desmond Tester

~ as ~

Stevie - Her Young Brother

John Loder

~ as ~

Ted

Joyce Barbour

~ as ~

Renee

Matthew Boulton

~ as ~

Superintendent Talbot

S. J. Warmington

~ as ~

Hollingshead

William Dewhurst

~ as ~

The Professor

Clare Greet

~ as ~

Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

Aubrey Mather

~ as ~

Greengrocer (uncredited)

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
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...