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Sabotage is a British film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in USA on 11 january 1937 with Sylvia Sidney
Sabotage (1937)
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Add to a movie listSabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about terrorism in the United Kingdom and an agent who hides a time bomb in a delivery package to blow up London. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent. It should not be confused with Hitchcock's film Secret Agent, also released in 1936.
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Suddenly, London goes dark and loses all of its electricity. There is commotion at a cinema, with people demanding their money back. The owner of the cinema, Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), enters through a back entrance to the living quarters above, and pretends to have been asleep and not know anything of the blackout. His wife, Mrs. Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) comes to get him and is surprised to see him, but he informs her that he had been sleeping the entire time. He instructs his wife to return the money to the customers -- against her protests -- because he has "some money coming in." As the money is about to be disbursed to the customers downstairs, the lights go back on. It is revealed that sand was put in the boilers as an act of sabotage on London's electricity grid.Actors
Sylvia Sidney
(Mrs. Verloc)
Oskar Homolka
(Karl Verloc - Her Husband)
John Loder
(Ted)
Desmond Tester
(Stevie - Her Young Brother)
Matthew Boulton
(Superintendent Talbot)
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