Foreign Correspondent
Reliably entertaining early-ish Hitchcock is interesting for the amount of moments and sequences he would re-use (mostly to better effect) in his later films; it’s overall more serious minded than usual, including an overt call-to-arms at the dawn of WWII which, removed from their historical context, play as a bit silly and overblown (especially the very last scene). McCrea makes for a terminally wooden lead, but everyone around him brings a fire and charge to their characters – for my money, it’s Marshall (surely an influence on Rains in NOTORIOUS?) who steals it, bringing a quietly sympathetic pall to his gradually sweaty antagonist.
Mini Review: Reliably entertaining early-ish Hitchcock is interesting for the amount of moments and sequences he would re-use (mostly to better effect) in his later films; it’s overall more serious minded than usual, including an overt call-to-arms at the dawn of WWII which, removed from their historical context, play as a bit silly and overblown (especially the very last scene). McCrea makes for a terminally wooden lead, but everyone around him brings a fire and charge to their characters – for my money
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