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...everyone knows about the McGuffin-Alfred Hitchcock's pet name for the object (microfilm or rare jewels) that kicks off the action in a suspense film. Less renowned, but just as important, is "the clock." This is movie shorthand for the deadline toward which villains push their mean plans and against which the virtuous struggle mightily. Two-Minute Warning, which concerns a sniper (Warren Miller) in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, has more clocks than a Swiss trade show...
...Today: HITCHCOCK'S Sabotage at 7:45 and Murder at 6 & 9:10; Fri-Sun Notorious at 4:05 and 8:20, Rebecca...
...Hitchcock's Rebecca and Wait Until Dark, Sat at 8 & 10 respectively...
Sabotage (1936) is by far the best of the lesser known British Hitchcocks--those which are shown less frequently than the 39 Steps or The Lady Vanishes. Sabotage Is Hitchcock's version of Conrad's The Secret Agent (not to be confused with Hitchcock's The Secret Agent, which in fact has nothing to do with the Conrad novel, as well as being a bomb to be avoided at all costs despite the claim that it is Hitchcock's favorite of his British films, oft-repeated in unscrupulous advertising.) Sabotage must also be distinguished from Saboteur, an American film Hitchcock...
Rebecca, the story of a shy innocent who marries a millionaire only to have everyone compare her damningly with his first, drowned wife, could have turned cruel and vindictive. But Hitchcock works out of a bottomless pit of sinister imagination, and instead of making us feel sorry for the poor put-upon Joan Fontaine, he has us half-believing that she might have this coming to her. Only Hitchcock can make you want to rescue a protagonist and stab her at the same time, and the ambivalence chills. A neat double suspence turn-around caps off the film...