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Actors: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Saboteur |
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SABOTEUR is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1941.
Los Angeles. Robert Cummings is falsely blamed for the destruction of the aircraft factory he's working for. He will spend the next 100 minutes of the movie searching through the country for Norman Lloyd, the saboteur. He will eventually discover that there is a 5th column at work in the U.S.A. whose goal is to destabilize the country. Police and F.B.I. who still believe Cummings is guilty, won't help him until the end.
A great Hitchcock movie.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Saboteur |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding a spy/saboteur
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar worker
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Northeast
- California
Desert?
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- flamed
Check here if B&W
Yes
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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