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SABOTAGE
 
Sabotage (1936) is a film about a woman who discovers that her husband is involved in a gang of foreign saboteurs.

In the United States, the film was released under the title "The Woman Alone."

A man and a woman manage a small cinema in London. Next to the cinema, a Scotland Yard detective works in a grocery store to observe the man whom is suspected of sabotage.

The woman has a younger brother, Stevie, whom she adores. 

 

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One day, the woman's husband is assigned to let a bomb explode in the heart of London. When he cannot deliver the bomb himself, he asks Stevie, who unwittingly takes the package with the time bomb. The boy is delayed and he is killed when the bomb explodes.
When the woman finds out about her brother's death and her husband's involvement, she is desperate on what to do.
Preparing dinner, she holds a knife and looks at her husband. 

When the man stands up and approaches her, she stabs him.

The detective finds out about the woman's involvement but because he has fallen in love with her, he covers up the facts and the woman goes free.

Sabotage (1936) - Online edition of the movie.


Mathieu Deflem
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1. Preface 2. Introduction 3. Hitch's Case 4. Psycho 5. Doublure
6. Public Guilt 7. Private Guilt 8. Universal Guilt 9. Fear 10. Romance
11. Vertigo 12. The Birds 13. I Confess 14. Rear Window 15. Rope
16. War Films 17. Blackmail 18. Sabotage 19. Conclusion 20. Biblio
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