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Sabotage, released in the United States as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder.
A Scotland Yard detective infiltrates a gang of foreign saboteurs who plan to bomb London. IMDb provides cast and crew, reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic crime thriller.
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- Crime, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1937-01-11
A classic thriller about a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. Scotland Yard sends an undercover detective to infiltrate the gang and stop the attack, but he faces a dilemma when he falls for the saboteur's wife.
Secret Agent Ted Spencer goes undercover as a grocer to expose a band of spies operating out of a London movie theater. The theater owner, Verloc, asks Stevie, the young brother of his innocent wife, to deliver a package of films, which actually contains a bomb.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Sylvia Sidney
"Sabotage" becomes an intriguing psychological drama even after the early revelation of the parts his key characters play in the story. Particularly vile is Karl Anton Verloc (Oscar Homolka), a terrorist conspiring to plant bombs in association with an underground cadre.
Synopsis. Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang. ( © IMDB )
A child carrying a bomb is killed in a London street in this adaptation of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Hitchcock explores the moral dilemmas of a saboteur, his wife, and a detective in a film that shocked and disturbed its audience.
