Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur: a review
Director Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 noir spy thriller Saboteur is about a munitions worker (Robert Cummings) falsely accused of starting a fire in a warehouse that kills his friend and who goes on a cross-country search to find the real culprit named Fry. Like Hitchcock's 1959 film North By Northwest and his 1938 British mystery film The Lady Vanishes, the protagonists' real search is for 1 single person who believes in him. And like those films, once he finds that person who believes in him he also discovers the truth and the man who really killed his friend. The overall lesson in this film is that you can't always judge something by the way it looks on the surface, beautifully illustrated by a blind man as Director James Whale does in his 1935 Horror classic The Bride of Frankenstein.
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