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“Saboteur.” MCA. $59.95. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 patriotic thriller (not to be confused with his 1936 “Sabotage”) has supervillain Otto Kruger sneering about “the moron millions” and innocent-on-the-lam Robert Cummings warning that the little people are “mighty strong.” Dorothy Parker was a co-author, her influence detectable when Cummings takes refuge with circus freaks. The episodic chase-pursuit, very reminiscent of “The 39 Steps,” fittingly concludes as saboteur Norman Lloyd (now a respectable doctor on “St. Elsewhere”) falls spectacularly from the Statue of Liberty’s torch in the film’s most famous sequence. Not prime Hitchcock but a very watchable period piece.