Sabotage is a prescient thriller that puts London on bomb alert well before the real seige of WWII occurred. It's a sad little film seemingly out of Hitchcock's subconscious: it does away with the law (guilt and innocence are taken by another measure altogether), the cruel father, and childhood itself. The settings include a greengrocer's whose friendly lettuce-salesman reports to Scotland Yard (Hitch's father was a greengrocer); a movie theater where the behind-the-screen life of Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka and their "happy family" is more brutal than what is on-screen; and images of childhood that are nothing short of ominous (a Disney cartoon asks "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and ye olde pet shoppe is anything but). Sabotage is one of the most "British" of Hitchcock's British films for its marvelously choreographed street scenes, an almost constant sideshow that becomes a key element in the story as a little boy is sent to Picadilly Circus with a film, a bomb, and his youthful curiosity. Sabotage itself is a "sound and light" show in the truest cinematic sense; both elements are used expertly, and there is nothing wrong with the film's being mainly important for style. There's so much of it.