Foreign Correspondent
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.
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration
- 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, starring Joseph Cotten
- “Have You Heard? The Story of Wartime Rumors,” a 1942 Life magazine “photo-drama” by Hitchcock
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Naremore
Cover by Patrick Leger, with F. Ron Miller
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration
- 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, starring Joseph Cotten
- “Have You Heard? The Story of Wartime Rumors,” a 1942 Life magazine “photo-drama” by Hitchcock
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Naremore
Cover by Patrick Leger, with F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Joel McCrea
- John Jones
- Laraine Day
- Carol Fisher
- Herbert Marshall
- Stephen Fisher
- George Sanders
- Ffolliott
- Albert Basserman
- Van Meer
- Robert Benchley
- Stebbins
- Eduardo Ciannelli
- Mr. Krug
- Edmund Gwenn
- Rowley
Credits
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Produced by
- Walter Wanger
- Screenplay
- Charles Bennett
- Screenplay
- Joan Harrison
- Dialogue
- Robert Benchley
- Special production effects
- William Cameron Menzies
- Director of photography
- Rudolph Maté
- Special photographic effects
- Paul Eagler
- Art direction
- Alexander Golitzen
- Music
- Alfred Newman
- Film editor
- Dorothy Spencer
- Interior decoration
- Julia Heron
- Sound
- Frank Maher
Three Reasons: Foreign Correspondent
