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Sabotage (Original title)While London Sleeps (Alternative title)The Woman Alone (Alternative title)
Date: 1936 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Story of a manager of a London cinema who is part of a gang of foreign agitators planning to destroy London.

Genre:
Thriller

Subject:
Women
Releases
Date: 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 77 mins Length: 6917 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: August 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 76 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: November 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 77 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (22)
Production Company: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, [Producer]: Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu, [Assistant Director]: Penrose Tennyson, Continuity: Alma Reville, Screen Play: Charles Bennett, Dialogue: Ian Hay, Dialogue: Helen Simpson, Additional Dialogue: E.V.H. Emmett, From the novel 'The Secret Agent' by: Joseph Conrad, Photography: Bernard Knowles, [Camera Operator]: Stephen Dade, Cartoon Sequence by Arrangement with: Walt Disney, Editor: Charles Frend, Art Director: O. Werndorff, [Art Director]: Albert Jullion, Dresses: J. Strassner, Wardrobe: Marianne, Musical Director: Louis Levy, Recordist: A. Cameron, Studio: Shepherd's Bush Studios
Cast (25)
Sylvia Sidney (Sylvia Verloc), Oscar Homolka (Carl Anton Verloc), John Loder (Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer), Desmond Tester (Stevie, Sylvia's brother), Joyce Barbour (Renee), Matthew Boulton (Superintendent Talbot), S.J. Warmington (Hollingshead), William Dewhurst (Professor A.F. Chatman), Albert Chevalier ([cinema commissioner]), Clare Greet ([Mrs Jones]), Aubrey Mather ([greengrocer]), Fred Schwartz ([tailor]), Austin Trevor ([Vladimir, spy paymaster at aquarium]), Charles Hawtrey ([youth at aquarium]), Martita Hunt ([Miss Chatman, professor's daughter]), Pamela Bevan ([Miss Chatham's daughter]), Peter Bull ([Michaelis, conspirator]), Torin Thatcher ([Yunct, a conspirator]), J. Hubert Leslie ([conspirator]), Frederick Piper ([bus conductor]), Sam Wilkinson ([greengrocer's assistant]), Sara Allgood, Arnold Bell, Baby Maureen, Betty Baskcomb ([uncredited])