Sabotage (1936) | StreamFlix

Cast

Sylvia Sidney

Mrs. Verloc

Oskar Homolka

Karl Verloc - Her Husband

Desmond Tester

Stevie - Her Young Brother

John Loder

Ted

Joyce Barbour

Renee

Matthew Boulton

Superintendent Talbot

S. J. Warmington

Hollingshead

William Dewhurst

The Professor

Clare Greet

Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

Aubrey Mather

Greengrocer (uncredited)

About Sabotage

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

Popularity

2.5

Release

Dec 2, 1936

Genres

Drama, Thriller, Crime

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Charles Bennett

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf

Mar 28, 2022

7.0

Perhaps not one of Hitchcock's most prominent films, but it's a tense crime thriller telling the tale of a family of recent émigrés to Britain who are struggling to run their small London cinema. Oskar Homolka ("Mr. Verloc") falls foul of some criminals who offer to pay him for carrying out an act of sabotage. This doesn't quite cause the mayhem they desire so he is unwittingly, this time, involved a much more deadly action. Unbeknown to him, Scotland Yard are on to them and have planted a detective (John Loder) in the greengrocers who befriends the family. The plot unfolds slowly and tensely. Loder and ("Mrs. Verloc") a slightly dewy-eyed Sylvia Sidney fall for each other as we go along. That storyline slightly districts from the suspense and the ending comes along a bit too rapidly for me. Great to watch, though...

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