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The Resource Foreign correspondent [videorecording], Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Foreign correspondent [videorecording], Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

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Summary
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
Language
eng
Work
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Extent
2 videodiscs (120 min.)
Note
  • Features: Disc 2: Hollywood propaganda and World War II (a new interview with writer Mark Harris); Visual effects in Foreign Correspondent (new piece on the film's special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron); Dick Cavett interviews Hitchcock (interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show); Radio adaptation (of the film from 1946 starring Joseph Cotten); "Have you heard?" (the story of wartime rumors, a 1942 Life magazine "photo-drama" by Hitchcock)
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1940
Isbn
9781604659269
Instance
Label
Foreign correspondent [videorecording]
Title
Foreign correspondent [videorecording]
Statement of responsibility
Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Title variation
Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign correspondent
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Contributor
Actor
Film director
Presenter
Screenwriter
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
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TXI
Characteristic
videorecording
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  • Foreign correspondent (Motion picture)
  • Dick Cavett show (Television program)
Credits note
Music by Alfred Newman ; art direction, Alexander Golitzen ; director of photography, Rudolph Maté ; supervising editor, Otho Lovering ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer ; interior decoration, Julia Heron ; costumes, I. Magnin & Co
PerformerNote
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1899-1980
  • 1894-1968
  • 1899-1995
  • 1907-1994
  • 1900-1954
  • 1889-1945
  • 1905-1990
  • 1920-2007
  • 1890-1966
  • 1906-1972
  • 1867-1952
  • 1875-1959
  • 1887-1969
  • 1866-1949
  • 1904-1994
  • 1905-1994
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  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • Wanger, Walter
  • Bennett, Charles
  • Harrison, Joan
  • Hilton, James
  • Benchley, Robert
  • McCrea, Joel
  • Day, Laraine
  • Marshall, Herbert
  • Sanders, George
  • Bassermann, Albert
  • Gwenn, Edmund
  • Cianelli, Eduardo
  • Davenport, Harry
  • Kosleck, Martin
  • Cotten, Joseph
  • Criterion Collection (Firm)
Runtime
120
Series statement
Criterion collection
Series volume
696
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  • Foreign correspondents
  • Spies
  • Man-woman relationships
  • World War, 1939-1945
Technique
live action
Label
Foreign correspondent [videorecording], Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Instantiates
Distribution
Note
  • Features: Disc 2: Hollywood propaganda and World War II (a new interview with writer Mark Harris); Visual effects in Foreign Correspondent (new piece on the film's special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron); Dick Cavett interviews Hitchcock (interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show); Radio adaptation (of the film from 1946 starring Joseph Cotten); "Have you heard?" (the story of wartime rumors, a 1942 Life magazine "photo-drama" by Hitchcock)
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1940
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
ocn891969560
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Extent
2 videodiscs (120 min.)
Isbn
9781604659269
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515129312
Other physical details
DVD video, sound, black and white
Physical substance
DVD video
Publisher number
  • CC2420D-2
  • CC2420D
  • CC2420D-1
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) i9781604659269
System details
DVD: region 1, NTSC, aspect ratio 1.37:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital monaural
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Foreign correspondent [videorecording], Walter Wanger presents ; screenplay, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison ; dialogue, James Hilton, Robert Benchley ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Distribution
Note
  • Features: Disc 2: Hollywood propaganda and World War II (a new interview with writer Mark Harris); Visual effects in Foreign Correspondent (new piece on the film's special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron); Dick Cavett interviews Hitchcock (interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show); Radio adaptation (of the film from 1946 starring Joseph Cotten); "Have you heard?" (the story of wartime rumors, a 1942 Life magazine "photo-drama" by Hitchcock)
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1940
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
ocn891969560
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Extent
2 videodiscs (120 min.)
Isbn
9781604659269
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515129312
Other physical details
DVD video, sound, black and white
Physical substance
DVD video
Publisher number
  • CC2420D-2
  • CC2420D
  • CC2420D-1
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) i9781604659269
System details
DVD: region 1, NTSC, aspect ratio 1.37:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital monaural
Video recording format
DVD

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