Sabotage ; The lodger / Gaumont-British Picture Corp. Ltd. ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town. The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is ca...
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Language: | English Spanish Chinese Japanese |
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Menu languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. Subtitles: Spanish, Chinese Japanese. |
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Los Angeles, Calif. :
Delta Entertainment,
1999.
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Edition: | Digitally remastered versions. |
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Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 144 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
Variant Title: |
Sabotage.
Woman alone.
Lodger.
Lodger: a story of the London fog. |
Format: | Video DVD |
Summary: |
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is suspected of being the notorious "Avenger", a killer who has been stalking women in London and strangling them. |
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Note: | Sabotage: Based on the novel The secret agent by Joseph Conrad. The Lodger: Based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Sabotage originally produced as a motion picture in 1936; American version titled: A woman alone. The lodger originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1926. "Includes an introduction to Sabotage by Tony Curtis and clip of the original theatrical trailer from Hitchcock's 1940 film, Foreign Correspondent." Videorecording. |
Call Number: | PN1995.9.D4 S22 1999 VideoDVD |
Credits: | Screenplay, Charles Bennett, photography, Bernard Knowles (1st film). Screenplay, Eliot Stannard ; photography, Baron Ventimiglia (2nd film). |
System Details: | DVD. |
Participant or Performer: |
Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester (1st film). Ivor Novello, June, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney (2nd film). |