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6.7Karl 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.
Cast
- Sylvia Sidney as Mrs. Verloc
- Oskar Homolka as Karl Verloc - Her Husband
- Desmond Tester as Stevie - Her Young Brother
- John Loder as Ted
- Joyce Barbour as Renee
- Matthew Boulton as Superintendent Talbot
Themes
- london, england
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- bomb
- black and white
- sabotage
- terrorist plot
- brother sister relationship
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
19,272 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
85/100
- Year
- 1936
- Runtime
- 76 min
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- Approved
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay by
- Charles Bennett
- Based on
- The Secret Agent , 1907 novel, by Joseph Conrad
- Produced by
- Michael Balcon
- Starring
- Sylvia Sidney , Oscar Homolka , John Loder
- Cinematography
- Bernard Knowles
- Edited by
- Charles Frend
- Music by
- Jack Beaver
- Production company
- Gaumont-British
- Distributed by
- General Film Distributors
- Release dates
- 2 December 1936 ( 1936-12-02 ) (London trade preview) 11 January 1937 ( 1937-01-11 ) (USA) 8 February 1937 ( 1937-02-08 ) (UK)
- Running time
- 76 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 74
- FilmAffinity ID
- 506723
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- publication date
- 1937-02-08
- title
- Sabotage
- review score
- 41/100
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Sabotage, released in the United States as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent, about a woman who discovers that her husband is a terrorist agent.
Sabotage should not be confused with Hitchcock's film Secret Agent, which was also released in 1936, but which instead is loosely based on two stories in the 1927 collection Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. It also should not be conflated with Hitchcock's unrelated 1942 American film Saboteur.