30 Dec Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent, WWII Movie starring Joel McCrea
(1940) One of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films, this is an action spy caper that captured six academy award nominations. It came out at the beginning of the war in Europe.
Joel McCrea plays a war correspondent who is reporting on the growing crisis in Europe. He and George Sanders were at their handsome bests.
The opening credits read that the movie is dedicated to “those forthright ones who clearly saw the clouds of war while many of us at home were seeing rainbows …”
Alfred Hitchcock made this anti-Nazi movie in an effort to help his native Great Britain. It was based on the 1936 World Peace Congress organized by Britain’s Lord Robert Cecil, all hoping to prevent World War II. Behind the scenes was the Soviet Spy Kim Philby who had infiltrated Britain intelligence. Of course, when this movie came out, none of that was known yet. (My Source: “Spies: A Narrative Encyclopedia of Dirty Deeds & Double Dealing from Biblical Times to Today” by Jay Robert Nash.)
Update February 26, 2013: I watched it again, and it’s still one of my favorites!
All that noise you hear isn’t static – it’s death, coming to London … You can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes … It’s too late to do anything here now except stand in the dark and let them come… as if the lights were all out everywhere, except in America. Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they’re the only lights left in the world! (The Foreign Correspondent)
Foreign Correspondent at amazon.com
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