Sabotage

Sabotage is a 1936 British black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Charles Bennett, Helen Simpson, Alma Reville, and Joseph Conrad, based on the novel The Secret Agent. Produced by Michael Balcon for Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, the film features Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder, and Matthew Boulton in the cast. Bernard Knowles served as director of photography, with music composed by Hubert Bath and editing by Charles Frend.

The narrative is set in London and centers on terrorism, with scenes taking place in a movie theater. The film has a runtime of approximately 76 to 77 minutes. It was released in various dates throughout 1936 and 1937. The work is distributed on video on demand by Netflix and available through providers such as HBO Max, Amazon Channel, and Criterion Channel.

Critical assessments include a Bechdel test evaluation. Review scores vary across sources, with ratings of 7.4 out of 10, 92 percent, and 41 out of 100 from one source, and 7.0 out of 10 with 19,272 votes from IMDb. Other metrics include a Metascore of 85 and an Rotten Tomatoes rating of 91 percent. The film is tagged with keywords including bomb, husband wife relationship, and England.