Foreign Correspondent Blu-ray

Release Year: 1940

Runtime: 120 min

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann

Studios: Walter Wanger Productions

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

Special Features:

New piece on the film’s special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron

and 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, starring Joseph Cotten.

“Have You Heard? The Story of Wartime Rumors,” a 1942 Life magazine “photo-drama” by Hitchcock

Trailer.

PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Naremore

Technical Specifications:

• 2K digital restoration
• Uncompressed monaural soundtrack