some charismatic actors and entertaining scenes, but the propaganda and cliches are just too transparent

an awful propaganda-laden screenplay which i imagine attracted hitchcock mainly for the audacious climax foreshadowing north by northwest. other than the final scene, it seems rather phoned in.

Both as a comparison to later, greater Hitch movies like North by Northwest and as an example of wartime movie-making, Saboteur is an interesting -if uneven- watch.

So forgettable, I literally can't remember a thing about (I'm not kidding) and am not even going to attempt to try and hit the character limit. Easily the lamest Hitchcock I've yet to see and I'm really surprised that there aren't more negative reviews up here. We all know Hitch is great people, but come on now, he's not above reproach.

Nothing new from a story standpoint as far as Hitchcock is concerned, but this is still a very entertaining movie. Had some good tension as well. Not the best acted, but it is adequate enough. If you are a Hitchcock fan, enjoy.

A bit over-the-top at times, but enjoyable Hitchcock nonetheless.

If at first it seems overly propagandic, cast your mind sharply to the flawed 'American Dream' living of the opulent perpetrators. It's more greyed out than its reputation indicated. Some scenes were photographically beautiful, some were full of silly screenwriting. Mixed bag, but worthwhile. Its pokes at class-bias were not too shabby either.

Has some excellent scenes, for example the fire creeping slowly across the factory floor in the beginning. And the ending on top of the Statue of Liberty has Hitch written all over it. But, overall, very uneven and somewhat bloodless.

Really good. Suffers from some uninteresting leads but the story is great, the direction is spot on and it has a great ending that should be more iconic. The pacing holds up very well. If you had Hitch's regulars in the leads this would be one of his most remembered films but sadly some shoddy acting really does bring it down.

Very offbeat thriller (even for Hitch's standards) assembles many magical ingredients (including an array of fascinating supporting characters) and well executed set pieces, but unfortunately never quite comes together as well as it should; Lane and Cummings in the lead roles are annoyingly bland and uncharismatic, but Kruger makes a wonderfully urbane villian, and there is a great bit for Vaughn Glaser as a blind man. Feels at least 10 years ahead of its time.

Terrific fun. Who can forget the climax on the Statue of Liberty?

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Somewhere between a rehash of The 39 Steps and a dry run for North by Northwest. Even if it feels like you've seen this all before, it's still an entertaining adventure film with some stand-out scenes - the fire creeping across the factory floor, the cinema shootout-within-a-shootout and the surreal travelling circus sequence amongst them. Surprisingly, the finalé on the Statue of Liberty feels a little anticlimactic, but otherwise it's pretty good.

Definitely must be on the list to watch. It is a very good one from Hitchcock but it feels like the director, as well as writers overreacted with idealistic filling of the movie. It tastes like too much artificial at times. Of course, the day can be saved when you watch cutie Priscilla Lane gets into the action.

lots of typical hitchcock stuff here, with sly use of cliche, patriotism as an afterthought to the thrill of the chase, lots of scenes that basically lay the roots for north by northwest. a couple of awesomely burlesque moments too.

The whole war effort part of the picture is a little annoying and Robert Cummings is a little stiff, but on the whole this is a pretty entertaining film. Hitchcock definitely knew how to make wrong man pictures and while this may not be his best it's certainly worth watching. Having the finale on the Statue of Liberty was a great choice, even if the symbolism is rather obvious.