Sabotage
… A bomb plot … A killing … Justice
1937 | 77m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Writer: | Joseph Conrad, Charles Bennett |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 08, 1937 |
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| Director: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Writer: | Joseph Conrad, Charles Bennett |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime, Thriller |
| Keywords | london, england, bomb, based on novel or book, husband wife relationship, black and white, sabotage, terrorist plot, brother sister relationship |
| Production Companies | Gaumont-British Picture Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Sylvia Sidney | Mrs. Verloc |
| Oskar Homolka | Karl Verloc - Her Husband |
| Desmond Tester | Stevie - Her Young Brother |
| John Loder | Ted |
| Joyce Barbour | Renee |
| Matthew Boulton | Superintendent Talbot |
| S. J. Warmington | Hollingshead |
| William Dewhurst | The Professor |
| Clare Greet | Mrs. Jones (uncredited) |
| Aubrey Mather | Greengrocer (uncredited) |
| Austin Trevor | Monocle Man (uncredited) |
| Charles Hawtrey | Studious Youngster (uncredited) |
| Martita Hunt | The Professor's Daughter (uncredited) |
| Torin Thatcher | Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited) |
| Peter Bull | Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited) |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Man Walking Past the Cinema as the Light Is Renewed |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Alfred Hitchcock | Director |
| Bernard Knowles | Director of Photography |
| Walt Disney | Thanks |
| Joseph Conrad | Novel |
| Charles Bennett | Screenplay |
| Charles Frend | Editor |
| Oscar Friedrich Werndorff | Art Direction |
| Angelina Cameron | Sound Recordist |
| Marianne | Wardrobe Designer |
| Joe Strassner | Costume Designer |
| Helen Simpson | Dialogue |
| Albert Whitlock | Scenic Artist |
| Louis Levy | Music Director, Music |
| Ian Hay | Dialogue |
| Stephen Dade | Camera Operator |
| Jack Beaver | Music |
| Pen Tennyson | Assistant Director |
| Albert Jullion | Art Direction |
| Hubert Bath | Music |
| E. V. H. Emmett | Additional Dialogue |
| Alma Reville | Continuity |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ivor Montagu | Associate Producer |
| Michael Balcon | Producer |
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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 o ... f 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...