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Feb 18, 2014 · F oreign Correspondent was, in a sense, the first Hitchcock movie made in America. His initial Hollywood assignment, under a long-term contract with David O. Selznick, had been the brilliant Gothic melodrama Rebecca (1940), but he always considered that film, closely overseen by the control-freak producer, to be deficient in a key element of his art: “It’s not a Hitchcock picture,” he ...
Apr 29, 2016 · Special Correspondents: Directed by Ricky Gervais. With Ricky Gervais, Eric Bana, Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald. A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
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When American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war, he is very much out of his element. When he stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Screenshots. Foreign Correspondent (1940) In Alfred Hitchcock's political thriller set just before the outbreak of war on the Continent: the assassination scene in Amsterdam when Dutch statesman Van Meer (Albert Bassermann) (actually a doppelganger) was shot in the face as he mounted the steep stairs in the rain by a photographer with a gun ...
Foreign Correspondent (1940) Foreign Correspondent (1940) is another of director Alfred Hitchcock's spy thrillers. It was his second American film (and hired out by David O. Selznick to independent producer Walter Wanger), one that closely resembled his earlier British spy thrillers: The 39 Steps (1935, UK) and The Lady Vanishes (1938, UK ...
Feb 16, 2014 · The Criterion Collection gives Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent an upgrade with a new dual-format edition, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The new 2K high-definition digital transfer was created by Criterion from the original camera negative and is presented in 1080p/24hz on the dual-layer Blu-ray disc ...
Mar 23, 2024 · Foreign Correspondent (a.k.a. Imposter and Personal History) is a 1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude
