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6.7/10 • 321

1937-01-081h 17m

DramaThrillerCrime

… A bomb plot … A killing … Justice

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

Directors
Alfred Hitchcock
Editors
Charles Frend

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  1. Sylvia Sidney

    Sylvia Sidney

    Mrs. Verloc

  2. Oskar Homolka

    Oskar Homolka

    Karl Verloc - Her Husband

  3. Desmond Tester

    Desmond Tester

    Stevie - Her Young Brother

  4. John Loder

    John Loder

    Ted

  5. Joyce Barbour

    Joyce Barbour

    Renee

  6. Matthew Boulton

    Matthew Boulton

    Superintendent Talbot

  7. S. J. Warmington

    S. J. Warmington

    Hollingshead

  8. William Dewhurst

    William Dewhurst

    The Professor

  9. Clare Greet

    Clare Greet

    Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Mar 28, 2022

7/10

Perhaps not one of Hitchcock's most prominent films, but it's a tense crime thriller telling the tale of a family of recent émigrés to Britain who are struggling to run their small London cinema. Oskar Homolka ("Mr. Verloc") falls foul of some criminals who offer to pay him for carrying out an act of sabotage. This doesn't quite cause the mayhem they desire so he is unwittingly, this time, involved a much more deadly action. Unbeknown to him, Scotland Yard are on to them and have planted a detective (John Loder) in the greengrocers who befriends the family. The plot unfolds slowly and tensely. Loder and ("Mrs. Verloc") a slightly dewy-eyed Sylvia Sidney fall for each other as we go along. That storyline slightly districts from the suspense and the ending comes along a bit too rapidly for me. Great to watch, though...

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
london, englandhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookbombblack and whitesabotageterrorist plotbrother sister relationship