![]() | MOVIE #1,618 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.10.24![]() EVERY OTHER FRIDAY I’M REVIEWING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THIS IS TGI-HITCHOCK! One of the reasons I have switched to doing chronological-only Director Focuses is that it allows me to see an artist’s growth and — most of the time — this means that the films get better as I go along. For example, Saboteur is Hitchcock’s best effort yet, but it’s still best known as a movie that he essentially remade twenty years later (a little picture called North by Northwest). Even in 1942, these themes were already well-tread, though: previous entries like the 1930s’ The Man Who Knew Too Much (which he would also go on to remake) and The 39 Steps are thrillers that follow a similar trajectory of the “wrongfully accused man seeks to uncover some massive conspiracy” plotline. |
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…to a fantastic bridge-jump stunt…
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…amazing, living matte art…
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…all the way to the final, eerily quiet set-piece on the “Statue of Liberty” — perhaps this looks cheesy to some but I think it’s genius…
This is his best-paced and most economical effort to date, and the most entertaining overall as well. A new leader in the clubhouse. For now.
CHRONOLOGICALLY
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Saboteur is a 1942 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison and Dorothy Parker. The film stars Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane and Norman Lloyd. It was released on April 22, 1942.
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