Sabotage (1936) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Sabotage (The Woman Alone)aka
AKA
- I Married a Murderer
Year
1936
Running time
76 min.
Country
United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife Sylvia Sidney doesn't suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she's picked up enough second-hand information about her husband's activities to arouse the interest of government agent (John Loder). Posing as a grocer, Loder moves next door to the Homolkas, befriending Sidney and her precocious young brother Desmond Tester. Sensing that he's being watched, Homolka sends Tester out to deliver a reel of film. The reel contains a time bomb, but Homolka is certain that the boy will deliver his package on time and will be safely away by the time the bomb explodes. Thus begins one of Hitchcock's most electrifying suspense sequences, as the unsuspecting boy is delayed en route to his destination. Sabotage was based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent; the film was retitled A Woman Alone in the US.
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Critics' reviews
- "Hitchcock thought that he erred in this one, and that that explained why the picture wasn't a hit. But he was wrong; this adaptation of Conrad's The Secret Agent may be just about the best of his English thrillers"
- "A commercially compromised but often brilliant updating of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent"
- "Freely adapted from Conrad's 'The Secret Agent', this 1936 study of murderous intimacy is ripe for reevaluation as the masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock's British period."
- "A tense and chilling espionage picture, Sabotage contains one sequence that many consider among the director's most excruciatingly suspenseful."
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