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Sabotage (1939)
Directed by Harold Young
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Overview
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them…..
Rated NR | Length 66 minutes
Actors
Arleen Whelan | Gordon Oliver | Charley Grapewin | Lucien Littlefield | Paul Guilfoyle | Donald Douglas | J.M. Kerrigan | Dorothy Peterson | Joe Sawyer | Maude Eburne | Horace McMahon | Johnny Russell | Wade Boteler | Frank Darien | Raymond Bailey | John Dilson | Winifred Drew | Sarah Edwards | Fern Emmett | Pat Flaherty | Byron Foulger | Roy Gordon | William Haade | J. Anthony Hughes | Jean Joyce | Jane Keckley | Guy Kingsford | Knox Manning | Ivan Miller | Forbes Murray | Hank Patterson | Frank Reicher | Jack Rice | William Ruhl | Edwin Stanley | Minerva Urecal | Charles Williams | Walter Wills
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/15/2024 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
A nice little pre-war industrial sabotage thriller from Republic Pictures that seems to hint that the saboteurs are communists as opposed to Nazi sympathizers. That makes sense in that communism and socialism were often painted as the enemy in the ‘20s and ‘30s, until the Germans and Japanese supplanted them during the war years. Luckily for America we returned to targeting “communists” after the war. All in a days’ work for America!
There’s also a little bit of small town prejudice against the accused factory worker’s fiance, who’s a worldly showgirl (i.e. some kind of fucking tramp apparently, in the eyes of the local gossiping biddies), but that doesn’t ever seem to really play into the plot much.
Part of the plot involves a group of war veterans, some pretty well aged, who, judging by their uniforms and hats, were veterans of the Civil War! Pretty weird to see that in a movie set in the late ‘30s. That’d be pushing the age limit for these old geezers up into the ‘90s. Technically possible but highly improbable. I wonder if there are any movies set in the 1900s that aren’t westerns and feature Civil War veterans.
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