Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother’s life.
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Film Cast:
- Mrs. Verloc: Sylvia Sidney
- Karl Verloc – Her Husband: Oskar Homolka
- Stevie – Her Young Brother: Desmond Tester
- Ted: John Loder
- Renee: Joyce Barbour
- Superintendent Talbot: Matthew Boulton
- Hollingshead: S. J. Warmington
- The Professor: William Dewhurst
- Mrs. Jones (uncredited): Clare Greet
- Greengrocer (uncredited): Aubrey Mather
- Monocle Man (uncredited): Austin Trevor
- Studious Youngster (uncredited): Charles Hawtrey
- The Professor’s Daughter (uncredited): Martita Hunt
- Mr. Verloc’s Visitor (uncredited): Torin Thatcher
- Mr. Verloc’s Visitor (uncredited): Peter Bull
- Man Walking Past the Cinema as the Light Is Renewed: Alfred Hitchcock
Film Crew:
- Screenplay: Charles Bennett
- Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles
- Editor: Charles Frend
- Novel: Joseph Conrad
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Additional Dialogue: E. V. H. Emmett
- Art Direction: Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
- Wardrobe Designer: Marianne
- Thanks: Walt Disney
- Continuity: Alma Reville
- Music: Louis Levy
- Sound Recordist: Angelina Cameron
- Costume Designer: Joe Strassner
- Dialogue: Helen Simpson
- Dialogue: Ian Hay
- Associate Producer: Ivor Montagu
- Scenic Artist: Albert Whitlock
- Camera Operator: Stephen Dade
- Art Direction: Albert Jullion
- Producer: Michael Balcon
- Music: Jack Beaver
- Music: Hubert Bath
- Assistant Director: Pen Tennyson
Movie Reviews:
- CinemaSerf: Perhaps not one of Hitchcock’s most prominent films, but it’s a tense crime thriller telling the tale of a family of recent émigrés to Britain who are struggling to run their small London cinema. Oskar Homolka (“Mr. Verloc”) falls foul of some criminals who offer to pay him for carrying out an act of sabotage. This doesn’t quite cause the mayhem they desire so he is unwittingly, this time, involved a much more deadly action. Unbeknown to him, Scotland Yard are on to them and have planted a detective (John Loder) in the greengrocers who befriends the family. The plot unfolds slowly and tensely. Loder and (“Mrs. Verloc”) a slightly dewy-eyed Sylvia Sidney fall for each other as we go along. That storyline slightly districts from the suspense and the ending comes along a bit too rapidly for me. Great to watch, though…