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Tagline: The thrill spectacle of the year!
Plot Outline: On the eve of WW2, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Plot Synopsis: Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies.
Review: The first of Alfred Hitchcock's World War II features, Foreign Correspondent was completed in 1940, as the European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Its titular hero, Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), is an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, his nose for a good story (and, of course, some fortuitous timing) promptly leading him to the "crime" of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones (who's been saddled with the dubious nom du plume Hadley Haverstock) walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring, and, not entirely coincidentally, falls in love--a pattern familiar to admirers of Hitchcock's espionage thrillers, of which this is a thoroughly entertaining example. McCrea's hardy Yankee charms are neatly contrasted with the droll, veddy English charm of colleague George Sanders; Herbert Marshall provides a plummy variation on the requisite, ambiguous "good-or-is-he-really-bad" guy; Laraine Day affords a lovely heroine; and Robert Benchley (who contributed to the script) pops up, albeit too briefly, for comic relief. As good as the cast is, however, it's Hitchcock's staging of key action sequences that makes Foreign Correspondent a textbook example of the director's visual energy: an assassin's escape through a rain-soaked crowd is registered by rippling umbrellas, a nest of spies is detected by the improbable direction of a windmill's spinning sails, and Jones's nocturnal flight across a pitched city rooftop produces its own contextual comment when broken neon tubes convert the Hotel Europe into "Hot Europe."
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032484/
Rating: 7.8/10 (2,362 votes)
US Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1940
DVD Release Date: September 7, 2004
Specs:
Video: XviD (CVS build 2005.09.16) @ ~1601 kbps
Audio: MP3 VBR 127 kbps Monaural
Resolution: 592 x 448
Aspect Ratio: 1.321 (37:28 )
Framerate: 23.976 fps
Qf: 0.252
Runtime: 02:00:25.100
Subtitles: English, Français, Español
I-VOPs: 1336 (0.77%)
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Max consecutive B-VOPs: 4
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Shadow10 escribió:Os dejo una curiosidad.
Aquí está...
El genuino doblaje español del estreno de esta gran pelicula de Alfred Hitchcock.
Gracias a Scaramouche por la recuperación de este audio.
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