CRITERION COLLECTION: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Mystery, Romance, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent, were both nominated for the best picture Oscar. Though Rebecca prevailed, Foreign Correspondent is the more quintessential Hitch film. 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. Foreign Correspondent deserves to be mentioned alongside The 39 Steps and North by Northwest as one of the master’s greatest adventures.
• Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck, Frances Carson, Ian Wolfe, Charles Wagenheim, Eddie Conrad, Charles Halton, Barbara Pepper, Emory Parnell, Roy Gordon, Gertrude Hoffman, Marten Lamont, Barry Bernard, Holmes Herbert, Leonard Mudie, John Burton, Samuel Adams, Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton, Walter Wanger, Rudolph Maté, Dorothy Spencer, Alfred Newman, Frank Maher, Alexander Golitzen
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Runtime: 2:01
• Company: United Artists Corporation, Walter Wanger Productions, Incorporated, Westchester Films, Inc., The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie