“Sabotage!, also released as “The Woman Alone”, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent”. It should not be confused with Hitchcock’s film “Secret Agent” released the same year, or his 1942 film “Saboteur”.
Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), the owner of a cinema, is part of a gang of terrorists from an unnamed European country who are planning a series of attacks in London. Their exact motives are not made clear. Scotland Yard suspects Verloc’s involvement in the plot and assigns Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer (John Loder) to investigate Verloc, initially under cover. Spencer conducts the investigation posing as a greengrocer’s helper, selling fruit and vegetables in a shop right next to the cinema.
Verloc’s young and beautiful wife (Sylvia Sidney) believes that her husband is a good man because he has been kind to her and her little brother, Stevie (Desmond Tester), who lives with them. However, gradually she comes to suspect that her husband may be one of the people behind the terrorist attacks. The final straw comes when her little brother is killed, along with many other people, when a bus explodes. The boy had thought that he was simply delivering a film canister, but he was unknowingly carrying a time bomb for Verloc, to be detonated in the London Underground station under Piccadilly Circus. The boy had become distracted along the way, which had delayed his delivery, and thus the bomb exploded en route to its final target.
Verloc confesses to his wife, but then blames Scotland Yard and Spencer for Stevie’s death, saying that they were the ones who prevented Verloc from successfully carrying out the bomb delivery himself. Soon afterwards, as Verloc and his wife are preparing to eat dinner, she stabs him to death with a knife. When Spencer arrives to arrest Verloc he realizes what has happened, but insists that she shouldn’t admit that she killed her husband. Nevertheless, she starts to confess her crime to a policeman. Meanwhile, at this very moment, the terrorist bomb maker sneaks into Verloc’s room to retrieve the birdcage that had been used to deliver the bomb out of fear that it might incriminate him. But as the police surround the building, he detonates a bomber-coat he wears in the event he is about to be caught. The explosion and fire interrupts Mrs. Verloc’s confession, destroying all evidence of her crime and effectively preventing the policeman from remembering whether it was before or after the explosion that she told him, “My husband is dead!” At the end we see an uneasy Mrs. Verloc and Ted Spencer walk away together.
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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by Michael Balcon, Screenplay by Charles Bennett, story by Joseph Conrad, starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder.
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Source: “Sabotage (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 19 June 2012. Web. 26 July 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage_(film).
love Hitch Thanks
This film is a master's class in suspense.
Why would whomever put this great old film here have failed to make it audible? Absolutely maddening. Turn up your volume timeless classic movies.
almost inaudible
Get a set of Bose headphones — they make for a superior listening experience, computer or TV. I have no problem hearing this track with mine.
This movie sucked ass!!!
Amazing movie – suspensed played out in ways that actually surprised. I can hear the movie fine without even having to turn up the volume on my computer very much. Not sure why others are having problems hearing it.
Thank you for sharing ?
Thanks so much for uploading and keeping these wonderful movies alive for those that have never experienced Hitchcock's great creations!
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Tenho o filme completo em alta definição HD. quem quiser meu email.
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bad movie – Hitchcock's movie prior to Shadow of a Doubt, really kinda sucked. This one included. poor,shallow characters, silly plot, bad acting. Bus blowing up was kinda prescient to terrorist acts today though. and yes the audio is set too low – not that it matters because the movie is not good enough to bother watching though it – though I did bother – lol.
For a good laugh, have a look at the subtitles.
Closed captioning is a joke, better remove it
Terrific old Hitchcock. His English black and white movies are in a master class of their own. This movie is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's great novella, The Secret Agent, and is well worth reading.
Thanks for uploading this classic. No problem with audio, even though English is not my native language. Keep up the good work!
Hey, thanks for uploading!! Love the old black and white films!! 🙂
I downloaded this
Thank you so much for uploading this!!
The kid walking around between the London public carrying a bomb to explode 1:45 PM. Oh boy!
se hace urgente que hagan más rápido la visualización de los videos en YouTube ya que resulta fastidioso que uno esté mirando una película de 2 horas y tenga que verla en 5 por la lentitud de las aplicaciones del software qué tiene YouTube y la ciencia va cada día más rápida por tanto como usuario de YouTube necesito que ustedes pues trabajen duro
Poor pic n sound.
Why do evil movie folks walk around with scowls and foreign accents?