Saboteur

The close-up of the Soda City calendar shows a much heavier coating of spider webs than the previous shot.

After arriving at the Statue of Liberty, a close-up shows 'Priscilla Lane' (qv) in a very strong wind mussing her hair.

In the next shot her hairdo is perfect.

Although 'Vaughan Glaser' (qv)'s is credited on-screen as Mr.

Miller, he is consistently called "Phillip Martin" within the movie.

While hitch-hiking the first time, Barry Kane's face is shown smiling in one shot, then jumps to a blank face in the next shot.

While at Deep Springs Ranch, when Barry Kane is playing catch with baby Susie, the position of the balls on the seat change positions in between shots.

When Barry Kane is talking to Tobin at Tobin's ranch, Barry lights a pipe with both hands but the next shot shows the pipe only in his right hand.

At Deep Springs Ranch when the maid Adele pulls a gun on Barry, one shot shows her holding the gun at her waist with both hands.

A subsequent shot shows the gun near a pouch on her apron with her left arm by her side.

When the two detectives hold Barry Kane at Tobin's ranch, the detective on Barry's left has his arm by his side.

The next mid-shot shows the detective holding Barry's arm with both hands.

When the blind man is setting the table, he is shown placing a plate on the table directly in front of himself.

The next shot shows the plate being placed at an angle so that it is in front of Barry.

In Soda City when the two men find Barry in their hideout, Barry reaches for their Las Vegas newspaper with his left hand.

The next shot shows him reaching and holding it with his right hand.

At the society ball, Barry and Pat stop by a dancing couple by the piano to talk to them.

The man is shown moving and snapping his fingers then stops dancing in one shot, then is shown dancing again in a subsequent shot.

From the American Newsreel, Inc.

Office, Patricia Martin uses lipstick to write a 4 line message on a blotter which she throws out the skyscraper window.

A group of cab drivers below pick up the blotter.

Viewing from over one cabby's shoulder, the message is now 3 lines.

In a subsequent closeup, the message returns to its original form, followed by another over the shoulder shot showing the second form, again.

When Pat is trying to stall Fry in the Statue of Liberty she asks "Where's Brooklyn?" He points toward the right.

Brooklyn is toward the left from where they were standing.

When the Las Vegas newspaper is first seen in Freeman's pocket at Soda City, it is folded so that the headline cannot be seen.

When Kane looks toward the pocket, the headline catches his eye, yet when he reaches for the paper to pull it out of the pocket, it has the original fold with no headline showing.

During the confrontation on the Statue of Liberty's torch, the waters of the background can be seen through the statue's arm.

Matte lines visible around Fry when he falls to his death.

This is a thrilling Hitch movie about a high-class rebellious group plotting to blow up major factories , installations , dams and ships . A factory worker ( Robert Cummings ) wrongfully framed of sabotage at a munitions plant set off on pursuit the traitor ( Norman Lloyd still today acting ) who accused him .

The film begins at an aircraft plant in America during WWII. Unexpectedly, there's an explosion and the place is destroyed--thanks to deliberate sabotage.

No need to recap the plot nor echo consensus points.The movie reminds me a lot of North By Northwest (1959), right down to the cliff-hanger ending.

After moving to the USA in 1939, Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, had made such good psychological dramas like "Rebecca" (1940) and "Notorious" (1941). After the USA entered World War II in late 1941, it was obvious that Hollywood movie themes would focus on such subjects as espionage, the home front, national defense, and action in the field.

Well we can hope they do when their goal is to aide our enemies into destroying freedom as we know it. Robert Cummings has probably his best film role, being quite dramatic for a change as opposed to the light hearted romantic comic lead he was for most of his films.

There are shades of Hitchcock's other films both forward and back. The most obvious are North by Northwest and Young and Innocent to me.

Alfred Hitchcock directed this entertaining WWII espionage thriller that stars Robert Cummings as Aircraft factory employee Barry Kane, who is unjustly accused of sabotage after a fire and explosion at the plant kills his best friend. Forced to go on the run to find the real culprits, he enlists the aid of a beautiful woman named Pat Martin(played by Priscilla Lane) who comes to believe in his innocence, and helps him as they cross country by train and on foot, as they learn that respected businessman(played buy Otto Kruger) is behind the traitorous plot, and used a man named Frye(played by Norman Lloyd) as the real saboteur.

Saboteur doesn't get the attention it deserves for one major reason. Hitchcock wanted Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

Saboteur belongs to the group I call "middle Hitch" - neither among his timeless masterpieces (Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo...) nor among his very good movies (To Catch a Thief, Suspicion...