Sabotage

1937 77 min ★ 6.7 Drama, Thriller, Crime

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.

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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)

Details

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Screenplay

Charles Bennett

Tagline

"A bomb plot... A Killing... Justice."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

March 28, 2022

★ 7/10

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, involve...