Won't anyone stand up for this movie?

A Great film. I also like the James Bond Music Scene too. The Video of the James Bond Scene is available here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs64RatBses

The famous James Bond Music Scene - right when Pat (Priscilla Lane) has just grabbed (Robert Cummings) Barry's hands and wrapped them round the steering wheel there are a few seconds of James Bond-like chords similar to the main fanfare).

I like the Scene Barry jumps into the lake from the bridge.

I allways loved Sabateur, especially the ending.

Mr. Rusk, your not wearing your tie!

Saboteur(1942) in my opinion is a fun film to watch. Statue of Liberty Scene is brilliant. Robert Cummings jumping from the bridge is great too.

I know, I know. Some of my most favorite movies are low rated on IMDB. For example:

"Double Jeopardy"

I loved this movie. Sure, many things in it were not credible, but what movies are? Is Saboteur credible? No, but, it's very entertaining.

Is DJ predictable? Yes, but other movies aren't? Is Sleepless in Seattle predictable? Of course it is.

I could go on and on about Double Jeopardy.

Another favorite, but low rated, movie?

"Hero" with Dustin Hoffman.

Is this Dustin's greatest role? I say "yes." Yet not even an Oscar nomination.
Geena Davis - just great. The supporting cast including Chevy Chase - just great.

No, most of the visitors to the IMDb site like watching movies its just that all their lives they have watched mostly dreck so they really have no idea what a good film is. For young males if there aren't a lot of explosions, exposed breasts, constant high speed CGI chase scenes, switch scene to topless bar with more T & A, a 100 Arabs taken out within a few minutes with the hero using a Mac-10, a few more explosions this time from tanks, more gratuitous shots of naked boobies with young girls wearing G-strings it's obvious they ain't gonna rate no stinkin' Hitchcock film over 5. Now, anything with Vin Diesel rates a 10 from the young male visitors to IMDb. Those are works of art!

Excellent to see so many come to this films rescue, especially the words of ericolsen.

Frankly, I am surprised that people still use the word "flawed" when they talk about a film. What is "flawed" anyway? Something that doesn't match your criteria? Obviously, those who find Saboteur flawed are inferior beings .

The film is far more daring--both thematically and technically--than most people seem to notice; but this is to be expected from Hitchcock, so I can understand how people would overlook this aspect. My favorite Hitch, and now that I am finishing up his filmography, it looks like I will not find one to surpass it. It'd be great to find others who share the same love for this film that I do. [Raise your hand if you consider yourself one of these people.]

I proclaim ignorance.

Definitely. I had bought it despite hearing so many people rant about it. It was a while before I eventually took it upon myself to see it but when I did, I was pleasantly shocked by the magnificent climax and the plot itself. Why do so many people choose to deem it 'flawed'? I don't know......

Accessibility to a director is very important when introducing them to others. This is an accesible, but still entertaining and well-shot film(I first saw the ending when I was 6 and I haven't forgotten it since).

People hate it mainly because it seems to far-fetched and doesn't have the creepy air of uncertainty that permeates his films. One thing I will say in contrast to some of his other early films, something actually happens before the ending. We've been watching Hitchcock in my class from The Lodger on with the exception of Foreign Correspondant & Suspicion. Right now we're just past Spellbound. I've got to say his best stuff so far was the 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, which has been my favorite of his early stuff so far, and Saboteur. Honestly I think Rebecca is overrated like Citizen Kane(similar films). When Mrs. Danvers isn't on the screen it's not that interesting. Spellbound was so much about the connection between the leads and not much else until the end. Sabotage how droll, until the suspenseful bus. Blackmail was pretty weak too.

He's not perfect, but I will say that Saboteur is underrated it's a good Hitchcock and people not to realize that.

I don't know...my favorite underrated Hitchcock film would have to be Shadow of a Doubt...coming to this board, it seems many people are admirers of this film, so your assessment doesn't seem to ring true at all, it has many defenders in fact.

I'm not exactly one of them, I loved the first quarter of the film, I have no problem w/ a certain quirky element & loved the nice shots/sequences/scenes littered in this movie. The very first one that captured my attention from the very beginning would have to be the still shot of a wall w/ dark smoke engulfing the shot from the right - absolutely beautiful - followed by the sequenced attention of the workers, standing consecutively from farthest to that last man closest to the camera. I had no qualms w/ Kane jumping & swimming off the bridge, the driver helping him out, the Tobin baby or breaking off the handcuff w/ car engine fan, etc etc. But unlike many people here, a beautiful cinematography or choreographed scene/shot does not make a good film, for me personally, a film only works as a whole, not hinged on one singe factor or facet alone.

The issue I had w/ this was mainly the atrocious dialogue, or should I say the monologues? This film lost me completely by the Circus chapter, w/ that extended monologue from the bearded lady & the elder circus guy, it wasn't really because of its unrealistic nature that made me cringe but the superficial, cold, deluded, ridiculousness of the entire thing! I was barely hanging on by then due to a previous scene w/ the niece resting her shoulder on Kane's shoulder....wait for it...because she was cold & wanted to keep herself warm?!!! WTH?!!! It just seemed to pile up one after another after that, particularly the party/ball scene, just so many insurmountable plot points that just lost its charm w/ me. I don't know if I just had different expectations for such a film, one poster mentioned its similarity w/ the Austen Powers movies & I agree w/ him, but still, I never saw it as intentionally tongue & cheek (especially w/ certain scenes). I saw it as a film intended to be a bit cheeky *only* w/ certain points, & just lost itself w/ its delivery or forgot to tell a plain good old story. It seemed unaware of its nature & just took itself too seriously in its off-guarded & lacking story-telling (it really needed a better script). I'm not sure if I find this movie to be entertaining at some level even. It certainly shares a characteristic w/ these Austen P. bungled type movies, w/ one glitch, it doesn't seem to be in on the joke! One example is Kane strangling Frye inside the vehicle, while Frye seems unfazed by the Kane cutting off his o2, Frye (while being strangled) gives off instructions to his accomplice to go ahead....I have no words to describe the absurdity of this scene!

BTW, I've only seen Cummings in one movie (w/c I adore) before this - King's Row - but did he look a bit chubby in this, he looked very meaty from behind, like a duck.


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