Cast
Mrs Verloc (as Sylvia Sydney) : Sylvia Sidney
Mr Verloc (as Oscar Homolka) : Oskar Homolka
Det Sgt Spencer : John Loder
Steve Verloc : Desmond Tester
Renée : Joyce Barbour
Supt Talbot : Matthew Boulton
Insp Hollingshead : SJ Warmington
The Professor : William Dewhurst

A rare chance to see one of the best of Alfred Hitchcock's early British films, his dark thriller from 1936. While Hitchcock aficionados regularly cite The Thirty-Nine Steps or The Lady Vanishes as his best films prior to his Hollywood debut in 1940, Sabotage is his first pure spy thriller and demonstrates many of the early themes and styles that were to become his trademarks.

Focusing on a cinema proprietor who becomes involved in sabotage, leading his wife and her young brother into tragedy, the film uses cinema as a leitmotif throughout, adding drama and unusually for Hitchcock location shots, from the crowd scene of an audience watching a film to the famously tense bus scene, where a young boy unwittingly carries a terrorist bomb. The story sounds disconcertingly modern, but is based on a tale by Joseph Conrad.

Widely praised on its release and highly recommended now, this is a rare chance to see the early work of a master.