Watched Alfred Hitchcock's "Sabotage" today and became an instant fan of it! ;) The plot is set in London, and the movie is a thriller, suspense, as are the trade mark Hitchcock movies.
But the most striking thing was the pace of the movie and the fact that there were absolutely no negative or dull moments. Each frame of the movie is well thought of, and to say the master piece dates back to 1936, for the way the screenplay is handled, one could only watch it with awe!
Sylvia Sidney who plays Mrs. Verloc is beautiful. :) In a scene where she gets her hand on the knife to kill her husband, the tumult, angriness and uncertainity in her mind is well picturised. The pace sets up the real thriller. The scene where the boy Steve Verloc carries the package, without knowing about the bomb inside it is tremendously thrilling. A 'must watch' if you haven't watched this movie.
It would be nice to see such movies being made in Bollywood or kannada. (From the bollywood movies relatively of this era that I've watched, only gurudutt movies stand out as such master pieces). But god knows when our people would come out of all the animated dancing and vulgar comedy that show up in present day films. :P
Now, for the spoiler (from wikipedia)...
Sabotage is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which tells the story of Carl Verloc (played by Oscar Homolka), a terrorist from an unnamed European country, who conducts a series of attacks in London. As the story develops, his wife, played by Sylvia Sidney, realized that her husband is behind the attacks that are terrorizing the city. When her younger brother, Stevie (played by Desmond Tester) is killed, unknowingly carrying a bomb for Verloc, Mrs Verloc joins forces with Sergeant Ted Spencer (John Loder, who replaced Robert Donat who was too ill from asthma to play the part) from Scotland Yard to stop her husband and end the bombing spree before another major attack.
