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Saboteur is a 1942 Universal film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with screenplay written by Peter Viertel and Joan Harrison. The movie starred Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, and Norman Lloyd.

Brief synopsis

In this film, aircraft factory worker Barry Kane (Cummings) goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire which killed his best friend in an act of sabotage at an airplane plant. The balance of the film concentrates on his dangerous plight, and his belief that the real saboteur is a man named Fry (Lloyd).

Trivia

Hitchcock makes a cameo appearance about an hour into the film, standing at a kiosk in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteur's car pulls up.

The ocean liner SS Normandie also makes a brief cameo appearance, after having capsized in the New York harbor.

The film's climax

The film is perhaps best remembered for one of the most spectacular endings Hitchcock ever filmed. Taking place at the Statue of Liberty, it is the final confrontation between the accused (Kane) and the accuser (Fry).

Two things made this sequence unique:

There was no music to underscore the sequence; Hitchcock chose to let the action on the screen propel the scene on its own (since then, many films have been made that do not rely on a music score, such as Robert Wise's Executive Suite
, James Bridges' The China Syndrome
, and even Hitchcock's own The Birds
).
Visual effects that were ahead of their time (the way the villain falls from the Statue of Liberty at the end of the film--it has since been copied by such films as Die Hard
and Batman).

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