Oct 30th 

Sabotage**                            

(GB 1936)                     
Gaumont British. 76m. bw

A cinema manager's wife discovers that her husband is a saboteur who is instructed to plant a bomb in Piccadilly Circus.
Efficient, reasonably faithful Hitchcock adaptation of Conrad's The Secret Agent (ironically retitled because of the confusion with Hitch's previous film), with his usual stylised touches, which extend to some of the acting.

Written by: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, Helen Simpson, E.V.H. Emmett, based on the novel "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad.
Producers: Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, John Loder, Desmond Tester, Joyce Barbour, William Dewhurst, Peter Bull, Torin Thatcher, Austin Trevor.
Photography: Bernard Knowles.
Musical Direction: Louis Levy.