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Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sabotage (1936) |
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Based on a novel by Joseph Conrad, SABOTAGE is a british production directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936.
London. Oskar Homolka owns a cinema but is secretly part of a foreign group of saboteurs operating in London. He's under the surveillance of John Loder, an undercover policeman of Scotland Yard who tries to get informations about Homolka from his wife Sylvia Sidney. While Loder is falling in love with her, Homolka is assigned by his employer to hide a bomb at Piccadilly Circus.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Sabotage (1936) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- finding a spy/saboteur
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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