Unheralded masterwork

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2001)

SABOTEUR has been unjustly called a "poor man's 39 STEPS". It is a visually powerful spy/chase thriller. The thriller genre would not see another film with such bold eye candy and fast story-telling until Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST or the James Bond series.
An innocent American factory worker (Robert Cummings) is wrongly accused of sabotaging a factory, causing a few deaths. While he is hunted across the country, he has to find the real culprits.
The film has famous hero/villian show downs (in a noisy Radio City Music Hall, atop the Statue of Liberty, in a cramped van) It also has bizarre humor (Get a load of the henchmen purring out love songs amongst themselves, a Nazi spy reflecting on his mom dressing him in drag.) SABOTEUR is strange, fast, builds to a punching and kicking climax, in short- a gem!