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No. Saboteur (1942) has an original screenplay. Sabotage (1936) has a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's novel, The Secret Agent. The stories of these two Hitchcock films are unrelated.Incidentally, Secret Agent is a 1936 Hitchcock film with a screenplay based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel, Ashenden. It has nothing to do with Joseph Conrad's novel or Sabotage.Saboteur is one of Hitchcock's "wrong man" pictures, in which the protagonist is falsely accused of a crime. It is especially similar to one of his earlier British films, The 39 Steps (1935). Each film features a "wrong man" burdened with a blonde who refuses to believe he is innocent. Each film finds the man and the woman handcuffed together.
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