Movie #237 - Sabotage (1936)
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Another Hitchcock movie, another dud. Hitchcock is good at mounting suspense...and the scene where a gullible young man is carrying a time bomb is truly horrifying and tension filled (as well as the scene where Sylvia Sydney is deciding whether or not to kill her husband). But all of those scenes in between the suspense just drag, and drag, and drag. The film is also poorly titled. It should be called TERRORISM instead of SABOTAGE....but then again, Terrorism wasn't such a catchphrasey word back in 1936 as it is today. Short and simple to a fault...this is another dissapointment from the so-called Master of Suspense. If only that tension could have been maintained throughout...THEN we would have had something.