Made just after Pearl Harbor and the American entry into the war, Saboteur climaxes atop the Statue of Liberty, where a hunted Nazi agent hangs by his coat sleeve. One by one, the stitches give way. "Every second in this final thrill is prolonged, but the real Hitchcock touch lies in the paradox. It's absurd, but it grips; it's melodramatic, but the whole incredible event has been witnessed by a huddle of tourists who gape as we do" (William Whitebait). Factory worker Robert Cummings is framed on a sabotage charge. His pursuit of the real saboteurs and the police's pursuit of him lead him and heroine Priscilla Lane into settings and situations served up by Hitch with just a twist of self-parody-a shoot-out in a cinema, a freak-show, a fashionable ball at which the couple appear in street clothes and dance as if their lives depend on it.