Saboteur is a 1942 Universal film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, and Dorothy Parker. The film stars Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, and Norman Lloyd. It should not be confused with a Hitchcock film of a similar title, Sabotage . Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane is wrongly accused of starting a fire at a Glendale, California airplane plant during World War II, an act of fifth columnist sabotage that killed his best friend Mason. Kane believes that the real culprit is a man named Fry who had handed him a fire extinguisher filled with... gasoline, at the plant when the fire broke out, causing Mason's death. When the investigators find no one named “Fry” on the list of plant workers, they assume Kane is the real saboteur. They visit the home of Mason's mother, to ask if she knows where Kane is, but he has gone to get her some brandy, in an attempt to ease her suffering from the loss of her son. They come back as he returns, but she tells him to leave, breaking down in tears.
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| Release date: | April 22, 1942 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Frank Lloyd |
| Editor: | Otto Ludwig, Otto Ludwig |
| Music by: | Frank Skinner |
| Cinematography: | Joseph A. Valentine |
| Screenplay by: | Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |