Talk:Sabotage (1936 film)

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So this film doesn't star Alessando Alegre as "The Chief", Sir Stewart Wallace as himself, Nathan Wind as Cochese, Vic Cafari as Bobby "The Rookie" and Fred Kelly as Bunny after all? &mdash; J I P | Talk 10:18, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I slightly changed the line "The tobacconist's shop is transformed into a movie theater". It's never explicitly stated in the novel what Verloc sells, but it's fairly clear that it's pornography, and definitely not tobacco. --MockTurtle 18:57, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

The Plot section of the main article states that the "exact motives [of the saboteurs] are not made clear." The motives are stated in a conversation (about 13 min, 40 sec into the film) between Sergeant Ted Spencer and Superintendent Talbot. Talbot tells Spencer that the saboteurs are "making trouble at home to take our minds off what's going on abroad." This is an example of what Hitchcock calls a MacGuffin. It is an explanation of the character's motivation which is not important to the action of he film. (See the MacGuffin discussion between Hitchcock and Truffaut on pp 137-139 of the book Hitchcock.)Lcaretto (talk) 08:02, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Merge
I agree with merging Sabotage (1936 film) into this article. I wrote the other one, really as a stub, to encourage others to complete it. I was surprised that there was not already an article but the link in List of British Films was red. Avalon 11:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge done. -- Robert Weemeyer 14:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

copyright status
I've removed the statement that the film is currently in the Public Domain, as the US Copyright Office lists the film as having it's US rights restored (see document dated 22/Aug/1997). Davepattern 17:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Odd typography
The novelist Grahame Greene is quoted in the Reception section calling one of the scenes an "ingenious and pathetic twist [] stamped as Mr Hitchcock's own." Are the empty brackets a mistake? Mucketymuck (talk) 05:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)