Top billed cast

1. 

   Sylvia Sidney

   Mrs. Verloc

2. 

   Oskar Homolka

   Karl Verloc - Her Husband

3. 

   Desmond Tester

   Stevie - Her Young Brother

4. 

   John Loder

   Ted

5. 

   Joyce Barbour

   Renee

6. 

   Matthew Boulton

   Superintendent Talbot

7. 

   S. J. Warmington

   Hollingshead

8. 

   William Dewhurst

   The Professor

9. 

   Clare Greet

   Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-03-28

Perhaps not one of Hitchcock's most prominent films, but it's a tense crime thriller telling the tale of a family of recent émigrés to Britain who are struggling to run their small London cinema. Oskar Homolka ("Mr. Verloc") falls foul of some criminals who offer to pay him for carrying out an act of sabotage. This doesn't quite cause the mayhem they desire so he is unwittingly, this time, involved a much more deadly action. Unbeknown to him, Scotland Yard are on to them and have planted a detective (John Loder) in the greengrocers who befriends the family. The plot unfolds slowly and tensel...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• london, england
• husband wife relationship
• based on novel or book
• bomb
• black and white
• sabotage
• terrorist plot
• brother sister relationship