Sabotage / Secret Agent (1936) Front Cover Actor Back Cover Madeleine Carroll John Gielgud Oscar Homolka John Loder Peter Lorre Sylvia Sidney Desmond Teser Robert Young Movie Details Genre Thriller Director Alfred Hitchcock Studio Ryko Distribution Language English Audience Rating Various Running Time 178 mins Country UK Color Black and White Plot Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) Alfred Hitchcock was the most important film director of the 20th Century. Already established in Britain as a successful film-maker during the silent days, Hitchcock was wooed by Hollywood after a decade of internationally known pictures done in the 1930's. His move west in the 1940's allowed him the financial and artistic freedom which he found lacking in England and enabled him to produce films that were aesthetically cohesive, technically challenging and basically appealing to the common man. They were also enormous commercial successes. Apart form Charlie Chaplin, no other director was so personally identified with his collaborator. Hitchcock embodied the concept of "auteur" more than any other director and left an indelible mark on his craft, his audience, and the history of Western art in the last 100 years. Sabotage (1936) Mr. Verloc (Oskar Holmolka), a cinema owner, is part of a gang of saboteurs in London. He lives with his wife, Sylvya (Sylvia Sidney), and her young brother, Stevie (Desmond Tester). They know nothing about Verloc's secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective (John Loder), to work in a shop near the cinema and investigate its owner. Verloc's superior orders him to bomb The London Underground and Stevie, unwittingly carries the bomb to it's destination. But something goes dreadfully wrong. Secret Agent (1936) British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) returns home during WWI to find that a government agency has faked a report of his death. They get him to change his name to Richard Ashenden and travel to Switzerland to track down a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general and then Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll) who helps him in his assignment. Also starring Peter Lorre and Robert Young. Personal Details Seen It Yes Index 217 In Collection Yes Classification Movie Product Details Format DVD Region Any Region Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Layers Single side, Single layer UPC 688321201124 Chapters 23 Release Date 2000 Packaging Keep Case Standard Features Cinematographies Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono - English Nr of Disks/Tapes 1 Extra Features News Reel Cartoon "hose Cleaning Blues" Filmography Bibliography Cameo Roles