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Saboteur (1942)

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Country: US
Technical: bw 108m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis:

A man accused of sabotage goes on the run to try and prove his innocence and uncover a ring of Nazi sympathisers.

Review:

Familiar Hitchcock 'innocent on the lam' scenario with Kruger offering suave villainy while Cummings can summon only mealy-mouthed patriotism. Indeed the propagandist script is almost the undoing of this minor work, which builds to a couple of great sequences in a cinema and atop the Statue of Liberty (the last time such a cliffhanger would be enacted in soundtrack silence?) Cf. Herrmann's scoring of the Mount Rushmore cliffhanger.

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Country: US
Technical: bw 108m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis:

A man accused of sabotage goes on the run to try and prove his innocence and uncover a ring of Nazi sympathisers.

Review:

Familiar Hitchcock 'innocent on the lam' scenario with Kruger offering suave villainy while Cummings can summon only mealy-mouthed patriotism. Indeed the propagandist script is almost the undoing of this minor work, which builds to a couple of great sequences in a cinema and atop the Statue of Liberty (the last time such a cliffhanger would be enacted in soundtrack silence?) Cf. Herrmann's scoring of the Mount Rushmore cliffhanger.


Country: US
Technical: bw 108m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis:

A man accused of sabotage goes on the run to try and prove his innocence and uncover a ring of Nazi sympathisers.

Review:

Familiar Hitchcock 'innocent on the lam' scenario with Kruger offering suave villainy while Cummings can summon only mealy-mouthed patriotism. Indeed the propagandist script is almost the undoing of this minor work, which builds to a couple of great sequences in a cinema and atop the Statue of Liberty (the last time such a cliffhanger would be enacted in soundtrack silence?) Cf. Herrmann's scoring of the Mount Rushmore cliffhanger.

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