Dartmouth Film Society 75th: Foreign Correspondent
Alfred Hitchcock's World War II espionage thriller, produced by Walter Wanger (Class of 1915), features witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists and brilliant suspense set pieces.
Alfred Hitchcock's World War II espionage thriller, produced by Walter Wanger (Class of 1915), features witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists and brilliant suspense set pieces.
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 Oscar for Best Picture. Though the former 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 second World War, it's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces. Windmills turning against the wind, an assassination by camera amid a sea of rain-splashed umbrellas, a plane crash at sea and unlikely traitors make for a fun film with a serious mission—to encourage American audiences to support the war against the Nazis.
