Free Download Of Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Vol. 1: Sabotage
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If you like Sylvia Sidney or anyone from this star-studded cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1936 drama, among his darkest, is the one to which he regretfully pointed later as the exception that proved his usual rule about good suspense: you have to let an audience know the precise danger that a character doesn’t know he imminently faces. Then you have to withdraw or cancel out the danger lest viewers feel betrayed. The “betrayal” in Sabotage rather famously involves a bomb, a boy, and a bus. But in the context of the story (based on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, inevitably confused with Hitchcock’s quite different film called Secret Agent), the twist has a devastating significance, ushering in the director’s pet themes about the proximity of chaos to ordinary life and the nature and transference of guilt. Sylvia Sidney stars as the naive American wife of a German spy, the latter using a movie theater as a cover for his terrorist activities. When he asks his wife’s young brother to make a delivery–a package containing a ticking bomb, unknown to the child–a bus delay causes the boy to die in the timed explosion. Sidney’s character murders her spouse in revenge, but as in Hitch’s great Blackmail, the deed is obscured by a sympathetic lawman who ultimately shares her secret. Wrong or right, right or wrong–the clear distinctions don’t often exist in the great director’s movies, and Sabotage is no exception. The print of the film used in the DVD release is serviceable and probably comparable to an average 16mm classroom or museum presentation. The DVD also includes a Hitchcock filmography, trivia qustions, a director biography, and scene access. –Tom Keogh









