Foreign correspondent
(DVD)
Contributors:
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director.
Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968, presenter.
Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995, screenwriter.
Harrison, Joan, 1907-1994, screenwriter.
Hilton, James, 1900-1954, screenwriter.
Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968, presenter.
Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995, screenwriter.
Harrison, Joan, 1907-1994, screenwriter.
Hilton, James, 1900-1954, screenwriter.
Series:
Criterion collection ; volume 696.
Published:
New York, NY : The Criterion Collection, 2014.
Format:
DVD
Edition:
1940 motion picture release.
Physical Desc:
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Status:
Description
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.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Guilford Adult DVD
DVD FOREIGN
On Shelf
Old Saybrook/Acton Adult DVD
DVD AF FOREIGN
On Shelf
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781604658248, 160465824X
UPC:
715515113717
Notes
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
General Note
Includes booklet (12 pages, illustrations) featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production 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.
Participants/Performers
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD: region 1, NTSC, aspect ratio 1.37:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital monoaural.
Language
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Hitchcock, A., Wanger, W., Bennett, C., Harrison, J., Hilton, J., Benchley, R., McCrea, J., Day, L., Marshall, H., Sanders, G., Bassermann, A., Gwenn, E., Cianelli, E., Davenport, H., Kosleck, M., Newman, A., Golitzen, A., Maté, R., Lovering, O., Spencer, D., Heron, J., Harris, M., Barron, C., Cavett, D., & Cotten, J. (2014). Foreign correspondent. 1940 motion picture release. The Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Alfred Hitchcock et al.. 2014. Foreign Correspondent. The Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Alfred Hitchcock et al., Foreign Correspondent. The Criterion Collection, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Foreign Correspondent. Hitchcock, Alfred, et al. 1940 motion picture release. The Criterion Collection, 2014.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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