I continued my Alfred Hitchcock viewing on TCM. Saboteur — not to be confused with Hitchcock’s earlier Sabotage — has a brief scene that’s straight out of a Western. Then there’s an encounter with a blind man, just like in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. And how about a nod to Tod Browning’s Freaks for good measure?
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings’ co-star in Saboteur, passed away in 1995. When she died I learned that whenever I visited my younger sister’s family I was driving past the retirement home where Lane lived out her final years.