Robert Cummings

Priscilla Lane

Otto Kruger

Alan Baxter

Clem Bevans

Norman Lloyd

Alma Kruger

Vaughan Glaser

Dorothy Peterson

Ian Wolfe

Frances Carson

Murray Alper

Kathryn Adams

Pedro de Cordoba

Billy Curtis

Marie Le Deaux

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Jeanne Romer

Laura Mason

Oliver Blake

Alfred Hitchcock

Pat Flaherty

Sam Harris

Frank McLure

Harold Miller

Cyril Ring

Hans Conried

Tony Randall

Will Wright

Charles Halton

Dick Gordon

Hardie Albright

Frank Baker

Edward Biby

William A. Boardway

Lulu Mae Bohrman

Al Bridge

Ralph Brooks

Paul E. Burns

Don Cadell

James Carlisle

Jack Cheatham

Kernan Cripps

Oliver Cross

Mary Curtis

Sayre Dearing

Harry Denny

Helen Dickson

Norma Drury

Ralph Dunn

John Eldredge

Paul Everton

James Flavin

Eddie Foster

Ben Frommer

Jack Gardner

Gene Garrick

Art Gilmore

Gus Glassmire

William Gould

Aleth Hansen

Margaret Hayes

Vinton Hayworth

Selmer Jackson

Milton Kibbee

Rex Lease

Will Lee

Ethelreda Leopold

Alexander Lockwood

Nancy Loring

Lou Lubin

Jimmie Lucas

Frank Marlowe

Kermit Maynard

Dick Midgley

Belle Mitchell

Margaret Moffatt

Field Norton

Gene O'Donnell

Paddy O'Flynn

George Offerman, Jr.

Dorothy Parker

Emory Parnell

Ruth Peterson

Lee Phelps

Paul Phillips

Gerald Pierce

Alexander Pollard

Catherine Price

Louis Quince

Lynne Romer

William Ruhl

Paul Russell

Jeffrey Sayre

Charles Sherlock

Byron Shores

Harry Strang

Virgil Summers

Torin Thatcher

Jean Trent

Peter Viertel

Joan Harrison

Frank Lloyd

Frank Skinner

Joseph A. Valentine

Otto Ludwig

Robert F. Boyle

William Hedgcock

Irene Saltern

John P. Fulton

Russell Saunders

David Sharpe

Dale Van Sickel

Duke York

James V. King

Charles Van Enger

Jack Otterson

Fred Frank

Russell A. Gausman

Adele Cannon

Charles Previn

Bernard B. Brown

Jack H. Skirball

Edward Curtiss

Vernon Keays

John DeCuir

Dorothea Holt

Eugene Joseff

Thriller

Saboteur

Universal Pictures

Frank Lloyd Productions

United States of America

North By Northwest's parent movie.

This is one that I actually feel deserves a higher rating on internet sites, is it fair to say that this film can be called the black & white North By Northwest? since thematically it's the same so it is something of a forerunner to that great film. Simplistic plot of innocent man on the run trying to find the real culprit after he is blamed for a fire that killed his best friend. Whilst on the run he meets an array of interesting Hitchcockian characters, from spies to circus freaks and of course the delicious lady of the piece, in this case Pricilla Lane. Enough suspense to mark it out as a film from the maestro, witness a scene as the main protagonist Barry Kane is trying to split his handcuffs on the roadside, and the ending at the statue of liberty is a cracker, making this a very tidy suspenser that earns 8/10 from me.

Tidbid; Hitchcock had wanted Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck for the lead roles here and although that sounds mightily great, he didn't have to worry because Lane & Robert Cummings did just fine.

CinemaSerf

A rather run-of-the-mill espionage thriller, this one, with Robert Cummings wrongly accused of complicity in a fire that destroys a large part of an aircraft construction factory. He manages to avoid the police long enough to travel the breadth of the United States on the trail of a group of wealthy, powerful, fifth columnists. Priscilla Lane is the initially sceptical sidekick as they try to ensnare Otto Kruger and his network of traitors. Unfortunately, there is just too much inevitability about the story; very little suspense and the performances are really quite dry - especially the rather daft circus act storyline. It is fine to watch, but nothing notable to remember, I'm afraid.

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Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 Saboteur (Scene)

Saboteur Official Trailer #1 - Clem Bevans Movie (1942) HD