Foreign correspondent / Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Series: Criterion collection ; 696. | Criterion collection ; 696.Description: 2 DVDs (120 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.) sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. +ISBN: 9781604658248; 160465824XOther title: Title on the cover: Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign correspondentUniform titles: Foreign correspondent (Motion picture) | Dick Cavett show (Television program) Subject(s): Foreign correspondents -- Drama | Spies -- Drama | Man-woman relationships -- DramaGenre/Form: Thrillers (Motion pictures) | Feature films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired.LOC classification: DVD: FOREIGNProduction 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.Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck.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.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Fischer Hall Library DVD Short Loan Shelves | DVD: FOREIGN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | V001008 |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Includes booklet (12 pages, illustrations) featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore.
Special features: DVD Disc 2 & Blu-ray: 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.
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.
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck.
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.
DVD: aspect ratio 1.37:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital, region 1, monoaural.
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (16:9, 1.37:1) presentation; DTS-HD Master Audio; requires Blu-ray player.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.