{"id":425,"date":"2025-08-01T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:26:49","slug":"saboteur-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Saboteur-1942"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saboteur-1942<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Top 250 Films #236<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #98<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/60020559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-854\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/60020559-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"60020559\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/60020559-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/60020559.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed July 9, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saboteur (1942) is a very early Alfred Hitchcock film that served as a blueprint for his masterpieces in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows a common theme among Hitchcock thrillers- the falsely accused man. An aircraft factory worker, Barry Kane, is falsely accused of an act of sabotage that kills his best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Only Kane and the audience know the true culprit and set out on a quest for his innocence and to find and capture the real culprit.<\/p>\n<p>The film then begins a tale of adventure, cross-country hijinks, romance, and political espionage, similar to the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest (1959), which followed years later.<\/p>\n<p>This film contains some excellent scenes- the traveling Carnie train adventure, the blind man, and the climactic chase scene atop the Statue of Liberty are fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Saboteur (1942) is a bit raw, and the chemistry between the leads, Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane, is poor, but an early Hitchcock film to be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saboteur-1942 Director Alfred Hitchcock Starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lake Top 250 Films #236 Scott&#8217;s Review #98 Reviewed July 9, 2014 Grade: B+ Saboteur (1942) is a very early Alfred Hitchcock film that served as a blueprint for his masterpieces in the years to come. The story follows a common theme among Hitchcock thrillers- the falsely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saboteur-1942<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7664,112,38,3993,3992,204,4947,7464],"tags":[7665,113,109,3995,3994,258,4950,7460],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-236-favorite-film","category-1942-films","category-hitchcockfilms","category-priscilla-lane","category-robert-cummings","category-thrillers","category-tony-randall","category-top-250-films","tag-236-favorite-film","tag-1942-movie-reviews","tag-alfred-hitchcock-films","tag-priscilla-lane","tag-robert-cummings","tag-thrillers","tag-tony-randall","tag-top-250-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21783,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/21783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}