Sabotage (1936)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Joseph Conrad (novel)
Charles Bennett (screenplay)
Release Date: 11 January 1937 (USA) more
Genre: Mystery - Thriller


* Cast :

Sylvia Sidney ... Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (as Sylvia Sydney)
Oskar Homolka ... Verloc - Sylvia's Husband (as Oscar Homolka)
Desmond Tester ... Stevie - Sylvia's Young Brother
John Loder ... Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer
Joyce Barbour ... Renee
Matthew Boulton ... Superintendent Talbot
S.J. Warmington ... Hollingshead
William Dewhurst ... Professor A.F. Chatman


* Plot :


Mr. Verloc, a cinema owner, is part of a gang of saboteurs in London. He lives with his wife, Sylvya, and her young brother, Stevie.


They know nothing about Verloc's secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective, Ted, to work in a shop near the cinema and investigate the man. The head of the gang assigns Verloc to put a bomb in the metro.


The man sends Stevie there with the "bag".