Foreign correspondent / Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Edition:
Director-approved, dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 Blu-ray Disc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 videodiscs (120 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet.
Dick Cavett show (Television program) Have you heard? The story of wartime rumors.
Notes:
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck. Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Includes booklet (12 pages, illustrations) featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore. Special features: DVD Disc 2 & Blu-ray: 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.
Summary:
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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