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Monday, February 10, 2020

Saboteur (1942)

A factory worker (Robert Cummings) is accused of sabotage when an aircraft works is set on fire and an employee is killed. To prove his innocencehe escapes and travels cross country to find the real saboteur (Norman Lloyd). Directed by Alfred Hitchcockthis is one of his lesser films but lesser Hitchcock is nothing to sneeze at. The film comes across as a rough blueprint for Hitchcock's later (and much superior) NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). It doesn't help that the two leads (Priscilla Lane is the female lead) are bland with no screen presence. But there are still those marvelous Hitchcock touches like the train with the circus "freaks" and the Statue Of Liberty finale. It also comes across as a WWII propaganda film with its speeches (courtesy of Dorothy Parker) about standing up to the enemyetc. More entertaining than most propaganda films of the era but stillits agenda shows. With Otto KrugerVaughan GlaserAlma KrugerIan Wolfe and Margaret Hayes.

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