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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.

Contributors:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 , film director

Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968 , presenter

Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995 , screenwriter

Harrison, Joan, 1907-1994 , screenwriter

Hilton, James, 1900-1954 , screenwriter

Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945 , screenwriter, actor

McCrea, Joel, 1905-1990 , actor

Day, Laraine, 1920-2007 , actor

Marshall, Herbert, 1890-1966 , actor

Sanders, George, 1906-1972 , actor

Bassermann, Albert, 1867-1952 , actor

Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959 , actor

Cianelli, Eduardo, 1887-1969 , actor

Davenport, Harry, 1866-1949 , actor

Kosleck, Martin, 1904-1994 , actor

Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970 , composer

Golitzen, Alexander, 1908-2005 , art director

Maté, Rudolph, 1899-1964 , director of photography

Lovering, Otto , film editor

Spencer, Dorothy, 1909-2002 , film editor

Heron, Julia , set designer

Harris, Mark, 1963- , interviewee

Barron, Craig , interviewee

Cavett, Dick , interviewer

Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994 , performer

Naremore, James , writer of supplementary textual content

I. Magnin & Co. , costume designer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cst

Criterion Collection (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Main Work:

Foreign correspondent (Motion picture)

Included Works:

Have you heard? The story of wartime rumors

Related Works:

Dick Cavett show (Television program)

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 696

Alternate Titles:

Title on container: Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign correspondent

Subjects:

Foreign correspondents — Drama

Spies — Drama

Man-woman relationships — Drama

World War, 1939-1945 — Secret service — Drama

World War (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Man-woman relationships

Foreign correspondents

Secret service

Spies

Genres:

Motion pictures

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Romance films

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Drama

System Details:

DVD: region 1, NTSC, aspect ratio 1.37:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital monaural.

Performers:

Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck.

Production Credits:

Music by Alfred Newman ; art direction, Alexander Golitzen ; director of photography, Rudolph Maté ; supervising editor, Otho Lovering ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer ; interior decoration, Julia Heron ; costumes, I. Magnin & Co.

General Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Includes booklet (12 pages, illustrations) featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore.
Special features: Disc 2: 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:

2 videodiscs (120 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; Dolby Digital 1.0

Video Characteristics:

laser optical; NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

FOR 1940 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604659269
1604659262

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515129312
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection (Set): CC2420D
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection (DVD 1): CC2420D-1
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection (DVD 2): CC2420D-2

OCLC Numbers:

891969560