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Saboteur (1942) -- Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
Saboteur (1942) -- Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

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Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Peter Viertel (original screenplay) &
Joan Harrison (original screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
24 April 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Mystery | Thriller | War more
Tagline:
3000 miles of terror! more
Plot:
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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15 Bloody Box Sets
 (From Fangoria. 19 January 2009, 8:00 AM, PST)

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Pure Hitch more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robert Cummings ... Barry Kane
Priscilla Lane ... Patricia 'Pat' Martin

Otto Kruger ... Charles Tobin
Alan Baxter ... Freeman
Clem Bevans ... Neilson
Norman Lloyd ... Frank Frye
Alma Kruger ... Mrs. Henrietta Sutton
Vaughan Glaser ... Phillip Martin (as Vaughan Glazer)
Dorothy Peterson ... Mrs. Mason
Ian Wolfe ... Robert, the Butler
Frances Carson ... Society Matron
Murray Alper ... Mac - the Truck Driver
Kathryn Adams ... Mrs. Brown - Tobin's Daughter
Pedro de Cordoba ... Bones aka The Human Skeleton - Circus Troupe
Billy Curtis ... The Major - Midget - Circus Troupe
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Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted Gary Cooper for the male lead, with Harry Carey as the chief villain. more
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Continuity: The close-up of the Soda City calendar shows a much heavier coating of spider webs than the previous shot. more
Quotes:
Mr. Freeman: The most important thing is to make sure of everyone around us.
Charles Tobin: Mr. Kane?
Mr. Freeman: I'm just not sure. I want to know that he's all right.
Charles Tobin: All right? What an understatement. He's much more than that! He's noble and fine and pure... So he pays the penalty that the noble must pay in this world: he's misjudged by everyone.
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Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
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Tonight We Love more

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Is "Saboteur" a remake of "Sabotage"?
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13 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Pure Hitch, 19 November 2003
Author: schappe1 from N Syracuse NY

This is one of the classic Hitchcock films. It's not really a great film but its classic Hitchcock all the same. It's got the cross- country chase, the interesting characters and situation along the way, the innocent hero and the blonde, the oily villain and his crazed henchman, the big ending, (North by Northeast?).

I think it's a little weak that every nice person- save for the girl, instinctively knows Bob Cummings is innocent the moment they meet him. If you ran into a guy who is accused of torching a defense plant and his best friend with it, who you immediately decide that he's not so bad? Also the horrendous nature of the accusation would make the `It Happened One Night' type scenes that draw the hero and heroine together rather unlikely. The wartime patriotic speech at the end can certainly be forgiven. What movies in 1942 didn't have a speech like that?

The big thing, of course is the ending. Sweet old Norman Lloyd in his younger days finds, as Ben Hecht said, that `he needs a new tailor.' It's a model for many similar scenes later. One wonders why there was no denouement. Lloyd tells Cummings that he will clear him and then dies. Is Cummings on his way to jail at the end? An earlier scene suggests that the police already on his side. Wouldn't it be better to make that unclear and then have a scene afterwards where we find out he's off the hook?

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