For our Universal 1942 episode, a very odd pairing: The Mad Doctor of Market Street, a mad scientist/ocean liner comedy/island adventure movie directed by low-budget noir auteur Joseph H. Lewis, and Alfred Hitchcock's first fully American movie, Saboteur, a fugitive-on-the-run thriller. We dissect the depiction of the fictional islanders in\xa0The Mad Doctor of Market Street\xa0and the movie's deconstruction of the science/magic dichotomy, before moving on to\xa0Saboteur's leftist take on fascism in the United States. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we talk about Ozu's\xa0A Hen in the Wind\xa0and\xa0Curtiz's\xa0Angels with Dirty Faces, which have nothing\xa0in common but very emotional endings.\xa0
Time Codes:
0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE MAD DOCTOR OF MARKET STREET [dir. Joseph H. Lewis]
0h 24m 05s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 SABOTEUR [dir. Alfred Hitchcock]
1h 03m 52s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: \xa0A Hen in the Wind (1948) by Yasujiro Ozu & Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) by Michael Curtiz
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Studio Film Capsules provided by The Universal Story by Clive Hirschhorn
Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler
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