Sabotage U

From the archive

This film was last shown on 14 May 2014

By the time Sabotage went before the cameras Hitchcock was established as a technically adept director specialising in suspense thrillers and, with the famous 'bomb on a bus' sequence, the film boasts one of his most elaborately staged set-pieces. Along with thrills aplenty the film contains perhaps the director's best evocation of life in his hometown of London.

A season of films showing Alfred Hitchcock dealt with the challenges of moving from silent cinema to sound. This selection of his films from the late 1920s through to the 1930s will illustrate how adept Hitchcock was at mastering advances in cinema technology and how his early British films display stylistic and thematic traits that would regularly reappear throughout his career. These films will show how Hitchcock not only mastered the use of synchronous sound but also established himself as the master of suspense.

Hitchcock in Transition 1925-1936

The Showroom’s Film Studies programme is open to everybody interested in film. Each term is focused around a theme with alternate screenings and discussions and led by film lecturers every Wednesday at 6.45pm. The terms are 8 weeks long, with 4 films and 4 sessions.

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