A disappointment, certainly, but not one without its pleasures.
Sabotage
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United Kingdom · 1937
1h 17m
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Karl Verloc is a movie theater owner living a double life as a member of a ring of saboteurs wreaking havoc in London. However, his plans and family begin to fall apart when an undercover detective approaches his wife with his secret.
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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.
The New York Times by Frank S. Nugent
A masterly exercise in suspense. His new film is imperfect narrative, but perfect dramaturgy.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Sragow
This movie is as wrenching as it is eruptive. Hitchcock never went further beyond pop than he did with Sabotage.
The New Yorker by Pauline Kael
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, and if the public didn't respond it wasn't his fault.
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