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- 1942
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
- 1942
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
Summary An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Written By: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker, Alfred Hitchcock
- 1942
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
- 1942
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
Saboteur
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7.4
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Summary An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Written By: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker, Alfred Hitchcock
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
64
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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This film, Hitchcock's first contribution to wartime American propaganda, is as polished and suspenseful as any the great director would make.
A melodramatic journey from coast to coast shows Hitchcock at his best. It gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense.
For his first thriller set in America, from 1942, Alfred Hitchcock runs loopily through a gamut of genres, filming in a range of settings, from California to New York, to depict a country that lives in the image of its movies. His set pieces take on the blue-collar drama, the Western, the high-society mystery, the urban police story, and the circus melodrama, while capturing the paranoia of a country newly at war.
Saboteur is a little too self-consciously Hitchcock. Its succession of incredible climaxes, its mounting tautness and suspense, its mood of terror and impending doom could have been achieved by no one else. That is a great tribute to a brilliant director. But it would be a greater tribute to a finer director if he didn't let the spectator see the wheels go round, didn't let him spot the tricks - and thus shatter the illusion, however momentarily.
Not one of Hitchcock's best, but with a few creative sequences and some sharp writing from Dorothy Parker.
A mixed-up and over-loaded American spy thriller by Alfred Hitchcok, with the unengaging Robert Cummings in the lead and an unappealing cast, featuring Priscilla Lane and Otto Kruger. Nothing holds together, but there are still enough scary sequences to make the picture entertaining.
To put it mildly, Mr. Hitchcock and his writers have really let themselves go. Melodramatic action is their forte, but they scoff at speed limits this trip.
User Score
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7.4
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
7.4
67% Positive
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12 Ratings
28% Mixed
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6% Negative
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