245 mins |
Rated
PG (Violence)
We are playing a double bill of two giddily entertaining 'man-on-the-run' films as part of Academy's Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective Nov 9th - 22nd.
SABOTEUR (1942) - 109mins
'Factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is wrongfully accused of setting a deadly fire at an airplane plant in an apparent act of sabotage. Kane believes that the fire was set by another worker (Norman Lloyd), and he travels across the country to find the mysterious saboteur.'
"Dorothy Parker contributed to the screenplay of this cracking Hitchcock thriller, which cleverly served the dual purpose of warning Americans against Fifth Columnists and providing some much needed escapism." [David Parkinson / The Times]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) - 136 mins
'An ad-man (Cary Grant) becomes involved in a bewildering cross-country chase involving enemy spies, the police and a beautiful woman.'
"Certifiable classic territory, Hitchcock's glossiest entertainment is the closest the trickster ever came to an action movie." [Kim Newman / Empire]
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We are playing a double bill of two giddily entertaining 'man-on-the-run' films as part of Academy's Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective Nov 9th - 22nd.
SABOTEUR (1942) - 109mins
'Factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is wrongfully accused of setting a deadly fire at an airplane plant in an apparent act of sabotage. Kane believes that the fire was set by another worker (Norman Lloyd), and he travels across the country to find the mysterious saboteur.'
"Dorothy Parker contributed to the screenplay of this cracking Hitchcock thriller, which cleverly served the dual purpose of warning Americans against Fifth Columnists and providing some much needed escapism." [David Parkinson / The Times]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) - 136 mins
'An ad-man (Cary Grant) becomes involved in a bewildering cross-country chase involving enemy spies, the police and a beautiful woman.'
"Certifiable classic territory, Hitchcock's glossiest entertainment is the closest the trickster ever came to an action movie." [Kim Newman / Empire]