Foreign correspondent / Walter Wanger presents ; produced by Walter Wanger ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: CC2335BDDVD-2 | Criterion Collection (disc 3)CC2335BDDVD-3 | Criterion Collection (disc 2)CC2420D-1 | Criterion Collection (disc 1)CC2420D-2 | Criterion Collection (disc 2)Language: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 696.Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]Edition: Dual format editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- At head of title on container : Alfred Hitchcock's
- Foreign correspondent (Motion picture).
- Music, Alfred Newman ; director of photography, Rudolph Maté ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; special production effects, William Cameron Menzies.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Foreign | Available | 33111008265015 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
John Jones is a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. When things go wrong, he enlists the help of a young woman to track down a troupe of spies.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Special features: 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; "Have you heard?" the story of Wartime rumors; trailer; booklet.
Music, Alfred Newman ; director of photography, Rudolph Maté ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; special production effects, William Cameron Menzies.
Joel McCrea, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day, 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, NTSC, full screen presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.