Saboteur on TCM

Saboteur (1942, Universal) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger and Norman Lloyd is one of, if not Hitchcock's most underrated films. It basically takes the wrong man theme of 39 Steps to America and runs it West to East instead of North by Northwest and 17 years earlier. I think it is often confused with Hitchcock's earlier movie Sabotage, and I think it gets wrongly confused with the master's other wrong man stories. It's conceivable that the setting - in the munitions business at the dawn of WWII - has dated it for some, but that really shouldn't be the case. The flick is as strong today as it was on release and really deserves another look from everyone. Cummings was ultimately not the star that Donat, Grant or Fonda were, but his wrong man might be even more convincing because of that. Now, this flick is not always classified as a noir, but it certainly has the look (Joe Valentine DP) and feel of Hitchcock's other noirs and I'm pretty comfortable considering it among Hitchcock's large group of outstanding contributions to the cycle. It's on in 15 minutes: check it out!