Saboteur (1942)

PoP ** Mom **1/2

This was the first of the old Alfred Hitchcock films we watched. It starred Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane, two personalities I'm sure you are all familiar with. When one reflects on the more recent Hitchcock films, we could see where one critic referred to this film as a "first draft" of the 1959 film, North by Northwest. Here we have an "innocent man, wrongly accused" traveling from California to New York in his attempt to clear himself and which ultimately culminates in a thrilling climax at a famous American landmark. In other ways, one might view this as another war time propaganda flick, although the Nazis are never mentioned by name.