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Sunday 17 July 2016

Sabotage - Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka and John Loder. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1936)

Published on Mar 24, 2013
The shady Carl Verloc runs a cinema with his wife Sylvia and their little brother Steve in London's East End. Business is bad, the little family has constantly worries about money. Without the knowledge of the wife, Verloc earns extra money for acts of sabotage on behalf of a secret organization. Scotland Yard has already suspected him. A policeman has been working undercover in a grocery store in the neighbourhood observing Verloc.

A sabotage to the London power grid, initiated by Verloc, does not have the desired effect. So he is forced to make an even worse attack, blood has to flow! Verloc is ordered to place a bomb in a train station locker. He gets the bomb, but he did not want to deposit it in the locker himself. He sends the small Steve with the bomb package and urges him to deliver it before a certain time. Steve of course has no idea what he carries through London and is wasting time. In a tram the bomb goes off and kills many people, including the boy. When Mrs. Sylvia Verloc hears about the death of her brother and realizes, that her husband is to blame, she stabs him with a kitchen knife .....
 
 

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