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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
EAN: 0883904133674
Feature: A London movie-theater owner (Oscar Homolka) leading a double life as a foreign agent is found out after his wife (Sylvia Sidney) receives second-hand information about her husband's mysterious activities. Posing as a grocer, a government agent (John Loder) moves next door to the Verloc's, in hopes of capturing the traitor. Things reach a fever pitch and thus begins Hitchcock's most el
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: M113367
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Running Time: 76 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1936
Features:- A London movie-theater owner (Oscar Homolka) leading a double life as a foreign agent is found out after his wife (Sylvia Sidney) receives second-hand information about her husband's mysterious activities. Posing as a grocer, a government agent (John Loder) moves next door to the Verloc's, in hopes of capturing the traitor. Things reach a fever pitch and thus begins Hitchcock's most el
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/10/2009 Run time: 77 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com:
Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 drama, among his darkest, is the one to which he regretfully pointed later as the exception that proved his usual rule about good suspense: you have to let an audience know the precise danger that a character doesn't know he imminently faces. Then you have to withdraw or cancel out the danger lest viewers feel betrayed. The "betrayal" in Sabotage rather famously involves a bomb, a boy, and a bus. But in the context of the story (based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, inevitably confused with Hitchcock's quite different film called Secret Agent), the twist has a devastating significance, ushering in the director's pet themes about the proximity of chaos to ordinary life and the nature and transference of guilt. Sylvia Sidney stars as the naive American wife of a German spy, the latter using a movie theater as a cover for his terrorist activities. When he asks his wife's young brother to make a delivery--a package containing a ticking bomb, unknown to the child--a bus delay causes the boy to die in the timed explosion. Sidney's character murders her spouse in revenge, but as in Hitch's great Blackmail, the deed is obscured by a sympathetic lawman who ultimately shares her secret. Wrong or right, right or wrong--the clear distinctions don't often exist in the great director's movies, and Sabotage is no exception. The print of the film used in the DVD release is serviceable and probably comparable to an average 16mm classroom or museum presentation. The DVD also includes a Hitchcock filmography, trivia questions, a director biography, and scene access. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
I am an early Hitchcock film lover. His early British films show the Hitchcock touch starting to emerge. What I especially love about this series is the excellent remastering that was done with them. The old copy of "Sabotage" that I have is dark and not clear. This series has made an excellent effort at "cleaning up the picture", improving the sound, and making the movie much more enjoyable. Thank you for preserving these old Hitchcock treasures. Please keep it going!
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I will say that while this isnt a great film, it is a solid very good movie with some suspense. If you like Secret Agent or The 39 Steps you might like this as well (not as much as the 39 Steps, but you might like it anyway)
It is about terrorist activities - a women who suddenly realizes she is married to a terrorist. Her husband indeed is and there is a very shocking scene in this about the death of a boy on a bus - their son. A bomb didn't make it to its destination in time. It might not ... Read More
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The Bottom Line:
Though it lacks the narrative thrust and humor that characterize Hitchcock's later work, Sabotage is a suspenseful and brief thriller that hints at what the master had cooking for us in later decades; recommended mainly to fans of Hitch, it's a good but not great film.
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This moody thriller from Hitchcock's British period blends a somber and tense storyline with a budding romance borne from circumstance; something that would become a staple of his American films. While it may be just a tick below "39 Steps," "The Lady Vanishes," and "Young and Innocent" from the same period, it isn't far behind.
One of the reasons it reaches the level it does is the lovely Sylvia Sidney. She is simply fantastic as a girl in a dangerous and somber situation whose smile ... Read More
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The film begins in London at night. Suddenly the lights go out due to a power failure. Could a simple substance like silicon dioxide sabotage a big city? A blackout in peacetime? Will the patrons of the cinema get their money back? Mr. Verloc seems unconcerned. He is the owner operator of this business, not a big corporation. Is the grocer next door an undercover agent? Do terrorists stir up trouble at home so people ignore foreign news? Verloc meets his controller who asks him to leave a "parcel" ... Read More
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