Foreign correspondent

Blu-ray - 2014

A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection c2014.
©2014
Language
English
Other Authors
Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980 (film director), Charles Bennett, 1899-1995 (screenwriter), Joan Harrison, 1907-1994, James Hilton, 1900-1954, Robert Benchley, 1889-1945
Edition
Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition ; full screen
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Special features: Hollywood propaganda and World War II (a new interview with writer Mark Harris); Visual effects in Foregin Correspondent (new piece on the film's special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron); Dick Cavett interviews Hitchcock (interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show); Radio adaptation (of the film from 1946 starring Joseph Cotten); "Have you heard?" (the story of wartime rumors, a 1942 Life magazine "photo-drama" by Hitchcock); Trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (16:9, 1.37:1) presentation; DTS-HD Master Audio; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits
Music, Alfred Newman ; photography, Rudolph Maté ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer.
ISBN
9781604658248
9781604659252
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

British emigre Alfred Hitchcock's second American outing (for Hollywood indie United Artists) stars Joel McCrea (Sullivan's Travels) as a stateside reporter sent to Europe for a scoop on the looming war with Germany. With typical dry wit, choreographed camera work, impressive special effects, and a light romantic touch, Hitch offers up a clever variation on his British spy pictures while keeping the requisite patriotic messaging low-key save for a tacked-on coda. A pristinely restored classic for fans of the suspense master. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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