the subject be banal and even in 1942. it be war propaganda . the fascist be among u and they be do all they can to sabotage the war effort and to prepare their victory and their seizure of power then and their establish an effective totalitarian state . but hitchcock have to make it a real thriller . so he invent a first sabotage that succeed but one of the victim and the friend of the one who die in it and become the prime suspect and run away for the sabotage . that enable him to so to say visit the country and discover the tricky organization of the local nazi who have acquaintance and support in the top benevolent society and use the small little dissatisfied white to do the dirty work . the chase after the real saboteur take our young false suspect from los angeles to new york and to the top of the organization . he meet a blind pianist who believe his sens to know the chap be not guilty and his niece who be a star of the advertising billboard but also a frenetic and fanatic patriot who only think of go to the police . then the rich rancher and his nest of plotter . then and on the road some sympathetic and friendly truck driver and and the long caravan of a circus go around and their dwarf and beard woman and siamese sister and and a few other grotesque of that type . and he discover the target in a soda city and an electric dam that provide los angeles and it war industry with the energy they need . he take part a a gravel in the organization in the sabotage of a uss alaska military ship when it be launch . and finally with some inventiveness and creativity and elbow grease he and the pianist niece manage to get the whole lot clean up and most of them arrest and the first saboteur and a certain fry and fall down from the torch of the statue of liberty . that one would not fry on the old electric spark chair . but hitchcock be not yet in his habit of have a personal cameo appearance in his own film and so do not look for him . it well built and well perform and but it be only a propaganda film with an extra style . dr jacques coulardeau and university paris dauphine and university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne and university versailles saint quentin en yvelines .