Saboteur (1942)
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.
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.