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1936
Sabotage, released in the United States as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent, about a woman who discovers that her husband is a terrorist agent.
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Alfred Hitchcock, the grand master of suspense, liked to describe his filmmaking technique by telling the right and the wrong way to make a scene featuring a bomb going off. Simply showing the bomb exploding was the wrong way, because it would be quick and, apart from shock value, would not be that effective in emotionally engaging the audience. The right way was to establish the bomb being set up and slowly ticking…More
