Saboteur

USA 1942
produced by
Frank Lloyd for Universal
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Dorothy Peterson, Ian Wolfe, Murray Alper, Kathryn Adams, Pedro de Cordoba, Billy Curtis, Marie Le Deaux, Anita Sharp-Bolser, Jean Romer, Lynne Romer
written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker, music by Frank Skinner

review by
Dale Pierce

Available on DVD ! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat   CLICK HERE to buy from   CLICK HERE to buy from Always make sure of DVD-compatibility !!!

Alfred Hitchcock was said to have a problem with athornity figures, or as Penn & Teller put it on their show "Alfred Hitchcock hated cops, so he always made them look bad in his pictures." How true this is would be anyone's guess, but one thing is certain: Repeatedly, he had the police and other authority types getting the wrong person or suspecting some bystander of a crime.  He did it in Frenzy, North by Northwest, To Catch A Thief and a lesser known film, aptly titled The Wrong Man, just to name a few of them.  On a continual basis, someone fell into an unlikely and horrific situation that was totally undesired. Saboteur, set at the height of World War II fear and paranoia, is along this same line.

Robert Cummings plays a man who accidentally meets up with a real spy, who blows up an aircraft plant. In doing so, Cummings is mistakenly considered to be a sabotage mastermind, which he is not. He ends up being chased and chasing others across the USA in an effort to avoid arrest long enough to prove his innocence.

Much like in North By Northwest, this film offers a dizzying finale. Where North By Northwest climaxed on Mt. Rushmore, this film ends with a chase on The Statue Of Liberty, where the falsely accused man is redeemed and the real bastard falls to his death.

Hitchcock's trademarks may be seen throughout this film and though it is not always considered to be up there with Frenzy, Psycho, The Birds or North By Northwest, it is a classic movie with loads of plot twists.

review © by Dale Pierce

 

Feeling lucky ? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results ?

The links below will take you just there !!!

Find Saboteur at the amazons ...   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.de Looking for imports ? Find Saboteur here ...   eThaiCD.com Your shop for all things Thai Something naughty ? (Must be over 18 to go there !)   find Saboteur at adultvideouniverse.com

Thanks for watching !!!