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Sabotage

film by Hitchcock [1936]
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  • Master of suspense
    Alfred Hitchcock
    / First international releases: The Man Who Knew Too Much to Jamaica Inn

    Sabotage (1936) was far less playful, as might be expected of an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel about terrorism, The Secret Agent. Sylvia Sidney played Winnie Verloc, who is married to a terrorist (Oscar Homolka) who gives her young brother (Desmond Tester) a bomb-laden suitcase…

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    Sabotage (1936) was far less playful, as might be expected of an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel about terrorism, The Secret Agent. Sylvia Sidney played Winnie Verloc, who is married to a terrorist (Oscar Homolka) who gives her young brother (Desmond Tester) a bomb-laden suitcase…

    Read More