The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, October 21-27
Saboteur (1942)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock made Saboteur for Universal in 1942, and the movie works the mood; it’s wartime, and there’s a mysterious, deadly explosion at a California airplane factory. Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is mistaken for the perpetrator, but he’s determined to find the real traitor himself. Exeunt, pursued by cops. On the ensuing cross-country road trip, Kane encounters a troop of kindly circus freaks (bearded lady, conjoined twins), a loving grandfather moonlighting as a villain, and an adorable baby moonlighting as a plot device. Naturally, things come to a head atop the Statue of Liberty, with one man hanging by the thread of his sleeve, and another calling, prophetically, for rope, more rope! Elina Mishuris (October 28, 6:30pm at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Hitchcock/Truffaut”)