1h 49min | Thriller, War | 24 April 1942
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035279/
Decided to watch some non-musicals, especially during the war years. This shows an aircraft factory, which I wanted to contrast with Star Spangled Rhythm, not that I expect either to show % of women workers accurately. Here we have only a smattering of women, although one is prominent, causing NL to trip and fall.
I like RC better here than in his weak-men comedy roles. He plays an ordinary guy (with extraordinary powers of observation and recall, at least of that one envelope), and that's AH's specialty. I think I like PL in everything I've seen; she's a good actress and makes you think you might like to lunch with her.
The words 5th Column are not used here, but this is a definite sabotage organization, sympathetic to fascism as a form of government. (And what makes you think you'll be on the powerful end of the regime, rather than just another victim?)
As is typical with AH, we get a satisfying ending without any tedious denouement.
Frank Lloyd Prod./Universal, dir. Hitchcock; 7+
