Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Opening shots

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock this film stars Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall and George Sanders. In August 1939 an American reporter is hot on the heals of a conspiracy involving enemy spies in Britain.

This is a fairly run of the mill thriller filmed in the opening months of WW2 that has more than a slight hint of propaganda about it. There might be one or two elements of the plot which do not entirely make sense but in general this is a watchable if slightly slow thriller. Mostly the direction is unremarkable apart from the sea plane sequence at the end which provides a really good action set piece.


3/5

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