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DVD Details
- Storyboards/Sketches
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 20, 2006
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Cummings & Priscilla Lane | |
Performer: | Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Alma Kruger & Vaughan Glaser | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | Otto Ludwig | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison & Dorothy Parker | |
Composition by | Charles Previn & Frank Skinner | |
Cinematography by | Joseph A. Valentine | |
Produced by | Frank Lloyd & Jack H. Skirball |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Propagandistic reworking of The 39 Steps still works
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Soldiers on patrol behind cafeteria workers, Fascist-sympathizing terrorists deeply embedded in small towns and big cities, and the chilling crackle of hectic radio warnings set a tone of ambient menace.
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New Yorker
Rating: 4/5 --
Top-notch espionage thriller with a jaw-dropping finale atop the Statue of Liberty.
Katrillion.com
Rating: 82/100 --
A thrilling movie that -- while not among the top of handful of his films -- still strikes audiences as tense and highly entertaining many decades after its release.
Apollo Guide
Of course Saboteur is well directed, though it's rather like visiting an art museum's 'early works' exhibit of an artist before he became the Master of his form.
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DVDJournal.com
Saboteur's ingredients are not uncommon, but Master Hitchcock deals them out in a sinister manner that makes them appear so.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 1.5/5 --
To put it mildly, Mr. Hitchcock and his writers have really let themselves go. Melodramatic action is their forte, but they scoff at speed limits this trip.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
This riveting wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Lane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding confrontation and remains a suspense classic.
Product Description:
A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed his good friend. Recognizing that he has been set up and that no one is likely to believe his story, Kane is forced to piece together the little information he can recall from the event to find the true leader of a spy ring. The film carries themes later explored more deeply in other Hitchcock films. The lone hero escapes and races cross country, searching desperately for proof of his innocence. Kane has the good fortune to win the trust of a blind musician and later the affection of the musician's daughter, Patricia Martin (Priscilla Lane). Over the course of a series of explosive scenes Kane, both the pursuer and the pursued, approaches the inner circle of agents. Among the hairpin plot twists and near misses are the traditional absurd Hitchcockian touches--such as when the lovers seek refuge in a train car filled with circus misfits. The ultimate climax, the clash on the Statue of Liberty, is one of Hitchcock's most famous scenes.
Keywords:
Action
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Spies
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Suspense
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Thriller
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World War II
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On-The-Run
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Recommended
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Framed
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 19,747
- UPC: 025192831225
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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