1936 British
Thriller Film
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Charles Bennett
Cinematography: Bernard Knowles
Running time: 76 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Tagline: ...A
Bomb Plot ...A Killing ...Justice
Cast:
Sylvia Sidney as
Mrs Verloc
Oskar Homolka as
Karl Anton Verloc
Desmond Tester as
Steve
John Loder as
Sergeant Ted Spencer
Joyce Barbour as
Renee
Matthew Boulton
as Superintendent Talbot
S.J. Warmington
as Hollingshead
William Dewhurst
as The Professor
Charles Hawtrey
as a Studious Youth
Peter Bull as
Michaelis (uncredited)
Plot
A Scotland Yard undercover
detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb
in London
Awards: None
Trivia
Some critics objected to the
way Alfred
Hitchcock chose to end the sequence involving the delivery of
the bomb on the bus. Hitchcock, stung by the criticism, is said to have
regretted his decision. Nonetheless, the treatment is faithful to Joseph Conrad's
book.
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