Foreign Correspondent
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Movie Reviews of Foreign Correspondent
Movie Review: an oldie but a goodie
Summary: 5 Stars
Suspense and intrigue. Good acting and scenery. If you are a collector of Alfred Hitchcock films, this is a must. Not one of his best but excellent nonetheless. Becomes a little too patriotic in the end (for some) but consider the time and circumstance.Movie Review: foreign corres.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a typical Hitchcock thriller. He can do no wrong. Any "Hitch" movie that has a spy theme just makes it more enjoyable! All true movie buffs love Hitch!!Movie Review: Thrilling
Summary: 5 Stars
Foreign Correspondent is among the most thrilling movies Hollywood has ever made. If you love the classics, I believe you will love this movie.Movie Review: A tiny bit dated - but great Hitchcock movie making
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a Hitchcock fan forever so I don't know how I missed this one. Don't miss it.Movie Review: "I don't want correspondence. I want news"
Summary: 4 Stars
1940 black & white Hitchcock WWII spy film. Film was a nominee for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture (lost to Hitchcock's "Rebecca"), Screenplay, Art Direction, Editing, and acting nominee award for Basserman.
DVD Features: The DVD contains the movie, and some special features. The movie can be heard in English and read (subtitles) in English, French, or Spanish. There are two special features: 1) "Personal History: Foreign Hitchcock" (biography of Hitchcock and some information on the film and others (including producer, Walter Wager, somewhat unknown now, but he was behind many important films, like "Stagecoach," Wager had the film writes to a book called "Personal History" 1935 and started to make a film loosely based on it, but eventually Hitchcock's film ended up having nothing to do with the prior scripts or book; Hitchcock - who moved to California in 1939 with his family to make the film "Rebecca")), and 2) Theatrical Trailer.
Credits: The movie stars Joel McCrea (Jeffrey or Johnny Jones; "The Virginian") "with" Laraine Day (Carol Fisher; "Tycon"), Herbert Marshall (Stephen Fisher; "The Fly"), George Sanders (Scott ffolliott; "The Quiller Memorandum"), Albert Basserman (Van Meer; "Madame Curie"), Harry Davenport (Mr. Powers; "The Thin Man Goes Home"), and Robert Benchley (Stebbins; "Nice Girl?"). The movie is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Charles Bennett ("The Lost World") and Joan Harrison ("Rebecca"), and the dialogue is credited to James Hilton (for British language) and Robert Benchley (for some humor). Music by Alfred Newman.
Plot: A young American reporter is assigned to Europe to investigate war rumors. While there he stumbles across a spy ring in Amsterdam.
Review: The first impression of the film, even before I noticed that it was a black & white movie, is created the great music. The movie is dedicated to the "Foreign Correspondents." The movie opens in the USA Globe newspaper office. The editor or publisher (Mr. Powers) is tired of the very poor foreign correspondents currently working in Europe. Mr. Powers decides to send over a young reporter, Jeffrey Jones (later renamed to Huntley Haverstock by his boss), to dig up news (Mr. Powers: "I don't want correspondence. I want news"). First assignment: go to Holland to see what a Mr. Van Meer ("strongman of Holland") has to say about a treaty between Holland and Belgium. First mystery, Jones arrives at a conference riding in a taxi cab with Van Meer, but when the speeches begin, the head guy announces that Van Meer was not able to attend. Second mystery, who attempted to create the image that Van Meer has been assassinated Van Meer and why. Third mystery, the strange nature of the windmill that seems able to turn in the opposite direction of the wind and might be a method of sending signals.
Interesting, even films made in English end up with different spoken English and written English (subtitle) dialogue. At the going away party that Jeffrey Jones throws for himself on board his ship, he is trying on a hat and asks his mother what she thinks of it. She notes that she likes it, but not to wear it over one eye because that will make him look like a: 1) spoken: "gangster"; 2) subtitle: "dandy."
For some reason I had not heard of Joel McCrea before now, but he is very good in this film. Apparently, McCrea appeared in at least ninety movies. The film is quite good (though the USA national anthem playing at the end was a little over-the-top), exciting, tense, good strong plot, and with some elements of humor (some of the humor is created just by the manner of the British speech patterns; another humorous element is Jones inability to keep a hat) and romance (rather quickly moving romance). Overall, I would give the movie 4.35 stars.