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Title:
Foreign correspondent [blu-ray]
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Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781604658248
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
Title from container.
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.
Performers:
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck.
Technical Details:
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (16:9, 1.37:1) presentation; DTS-HD Master Audio; requires Blu-ray player.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Audience:
Canadian Home Video rating: PG.
