Saboteur – Saturday Classics
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Screening in a 4K restoration, Alfred Hitchcock's first feature with an all-American cast follows a young factory worker wrongly accused of sabotage who goes on a cross-country odyssey to prove his innocence, culminating in a spectacular set-piece atop the Statue of Liberty.
Alfred Hitchcock | 1942 | In English | 109 minutes | PG | 4K DCP
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Conceived as an American variation on "The 39 Steps," "Saboteur"’s double chase plot gave Hitchcock license to exploit the monumental scale of his adopted homeland. Robert Cummings stars as a factory worker ensnared in a wartime espionage plot that carries him from the California desert to the Statue of Liberty. That the worst of the saboteurs shield themselves behind a veneer of wealth and respectability surely owes something to radical novelist Dorothy Parker’s acerbic screenwriting, though Hitchcock himself showed a subversive streak in wanting to cast cowboy star Harry Carey as the villainous rancher eventually played by Otto Kruger. Art director Robert Boyle helped Hitchcock achieve the mélange of larger than life set pieces, setting the stage for their subsequent collaborations on "North by Northwest," "The Birds," and "Marnie." Produced at a vulnerable moment in the director’s American career, "Saboteur" was the box office success the director needed to secure that rarest Hollywood commodity: creative control.” —Harvard Film Archive
Alfred Hitchcock | 1942 | In English | 109 minutes | PG | 4K DCP
BUY TICKETS: https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/saboteur-saturday-classics/
Conceived as an American variation on "The 39 Steps," "Saboteur"’s double chase plot gave Hitchcock license to exploit the monumental scale of his adopted homeland. Robert Cummings stars as a factory worker ensnared in a wartime espionage plot that carries him from the California desert to the Statue of Liberty. That the worst of the saboteurs shield themselves behind a veneer of wealth and respectability surely owes something to radical novelist Dorothy Parker’s acerbic screenwriting, though Hitchcock himself showed a subversive streak in wanting to cast cowboy star Harry Carey as the villainous rancher eventually played by Otto Kruger. Art director Robert Boyle helped Hitchcock achieve the mélange of larger than life set pieces, setting the stage for their subsequent collaborations on "North by Northwest," "The Birds," and "Marnie." Produced at a vulnerable moment in the director’s American career, "Saboteur" was the box office success the director needed to secure that rarest Hollywood commodity: creative control.” —Harvard Film Archive
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