Review of Foreign Correspondent (1940) by Calvin C — 30 Sep 2014
An exceptional brink-of-war suspense thriller by Hitchcock, which bookends nicely with his later Lifeboat (as well as the two short films he made in France with actors there: Bon Voyage and Aventure malgache).
The short documentary included on the DVD from 2004, Personal History: Foreign Hitchcock, excellently showed that Selznick had rights to the best-seller for years, but that Hitch had the nature of it changed completely to more represent the then-current problems the Nazis were posing England.
It also stated the marriage proposal was basically the same actually used by Hitchcock himself when he had proposed to the missus. The acting and set-pieces are wonderful, and the film deserves a lot more recognition in his oeuvre than it currently ascertains.
This review of Foreign Correspondent (1940) was written by Calvin C on 30 Sep 2014.
Foreign Correspondent has generally received very positive reviews.
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