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FILM INFORMATION:


Title:Sabotage


Country:Uk


Release Data: 1936


Genre: Drammatico, thriller


Durata: 76'


Director: Alfred Hitchcock


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DATI FILM:


Titolo: Sabotaggio


Titolo originale:Sabotage


Nazionalit?:Gran Bretagna


Anno: 1936


Genere: Drammatico, thriller


Durata: 76'


Regia: Alfred Hitchcock


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PLOT:


Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang...


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TRAMA:


Il gestore (O. Homolka) di un piccolo cinema di Londra ?, in realt?, a capo di una banda di terroristi sabotatori stranieri e affida, per compiere un attentato, un pacco con una bomba a orologeria al fratellino della moglie (S. Sidney) che, nel frattempo, ha fatto amicizia con un fruttivendolo (J. Loder), in realt? un agente di Scotland Yard...


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CAST:


* Sylvia Sidney Signora Verloc


* Oskar Homolka Karl Anton Verloc


* Desmond Tester Steve Verloc


* John Loder Sergente Ted Spencer


* Joyce Barbour Renee


* Matthew Boulton Soprintendente Talbot


* S.J. Warmington Hollingshead


* William Dewhurst Il professore


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XVID INFORMATION:


size: 773 MB


runtime: 01:15:44

Video Codec: XviD


Video Bitrate: 1162 kb/s


Risoluzione: 512x384 (1.33:1) [=4:3]


FPS (Frames/sec):25.000


QF (Frame quality): 0.236 bits/pixel

Audio Codec ITA: Mp3


Audio Bitrate ITA: 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR


Freq Audio ITA: 44100 Hz

Audio Codec ENG: Mp3


Audio Bitrate ENG: 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR


Freq Audio ENG: 44100 Hz


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COMMENTS:


"Sabotage" is one of a series of six films in the mid 1930s that firmly created the public image of Alfred Hitchcock as a major film director and artist. The others were "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934), "The Secret Agent", "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Young and Innocent", and "The Lady Vanishes". The films caught attention in American (especially "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes"), and Hitchcock was invited to come to America by David Selznick, who would be his producer from 1939 onward.

The other comments on this film have pointed out some of the best moments, such as the explosion scene and the death of Verloc (Oskar Homolka). The film was quite well made, but the film had to be modernized for it's 1937 audiences. Although the foreign power that is behind Homolka's gang is never mentioned, a 1937 audience would have probably considered it was Nazi Germany (which was the suggested enemy in "The Lady Vanishes", and "The Thirty-Nine Steps". In the original story Verloc is acting for the government of Tsarist Russia, who has sent a high ranking official to London to tell Verloc to commit a terrorist act (to spur anti-Immigrant feelings in London). Verloc does not run a cinema (as in the movie - the novel came out in 1907), but a small store. However, he does sell contraceptive devices, which Conrad hints at but doesn't name. Verloc lives in a fool's paradise with his wife Winnie and her simple-minded brother. He thinks that his wife adores him, but she only tolerates him for the sake of giving her brother a home. When Verloc's plan destroys the brother, it destroys the household. Verloc's world is that of the foreign anarchists in London, none of whom are worthy of the respect their breast beating comments make them think they deserve. One of them is at total war with society, and wears an outfit that a modern suicide bomber would not find amiss (this character is kept in the film, but his impact is reduced by script changes). In the novel, when this "brave" anarchist goes out into the public wearing his booby-trapped coat, he suddenly sees the vast multitudes in the street and realizes that no matter how many he kills or maims thousands and millions will replace them - and nobody will replace him! Conrad's "The Secret Agent" was called the most completely ironic novel in English. If not it comes close, and is possibly his best novel ("Lord Jim" and "Nostromo" may be better). The twisted irony of the plot (for all the destruction nothing really changes) is first rate in the writing, but it does not translate too well in this film version. Watch the film for Hitchcock's touches and his directing of Homolka, Sylvia Sydney, and the rest. But read the novel by Conrad for the real treat.


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RECENSIONE:


Tratto dal romanzo L'agente segreto (1907) di Joseph Conrad, ? uno dei migliori thriller del periodo inglese di Hitchcock. Ricco di invenzioni memorabili (la sequenza del coltello) con una Londra insolita e una Sidney di straziante intensit?. Il regista confess? uno sbaglio: troppo simpatico il bambino per farlo morire.