- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Foreign correspondent (Motion picture)
- Variant Title
- Alfred Hitchcock's
- Series
- Criterion collection ; 696
Criterion collection ; 696.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
- Edition
- Dual format edition
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director.
Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968, film producer.
McCrea, Joel, 1905-1990, actor.
Day, Laraine, 1920-2007, actor.
Marshall, Herbert, 1890-1966, actor.
Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970, composer.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Notes
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Special features: New piece on the film's special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron; Hollywood propaganda and World War II, a new interview with writer Mark Harris; interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show; radio adaptation of the film from 1946; "Have you heard?" the story of Wartime rumors; trailer; booklet.
Music, Alfred Newman ; director of photography, Rudolph Maté ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; special production effects, William Cameron Menzies.
Joel McCrea, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck.
DVD, NTSC, full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
