Pynchon and Hitchcock

[Scott Chesnick]

Echoes from an earlier time
  I watched an early Hitchcock Film " The Secret Agent " recently and
discovered a bit of  a familiar Pynchon  plot fragment.
  The heroes being pursued in this convoluted plot of spies ,intrigue,
collusion ,and conspiricy by special German agents working for non other
than the repeating central theme for paranoids "IG Farben "

Secret Agent, The (1936)
                 Cast: Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Robert
Young -- 
Director: Alfred Hitchcock 
                 John Gielgud is a British agent assigned to kill an enemy
agent. He finally identifies the real secret agent with the help of fellow agent
                 Madeleine Carroll and Peter Lorre as the outrageous
"General"...but then a train wreck...and...all Hitchcock with a garnish of
light humor.

  Another film that would fit in to this theme  or at least be on Ted
Kaczynsk must see list is.

"Sabotage"   1936
Starring Sylvia Sidney and Oscar Holmoka. An early Hitchcock thriller based
on Conrad's "The Secret Agent" A woman who works at a movie theater suspects
her quiet husband might be the terrorist planting bombs around London.

Does anyone else have any Hitchcockian  parts they would like to add ? Scott