Film · United Artists · 1940
Foreign Correspondent
61Watch it awake.
A reporter catches a fake peace group, and the film wants a neutral country awake.
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The review
This one is arguing, not just chasing. A crime reporter is sent to Europe and finds a peace organization that is not what it says. A windmill hides a secret. Hitchcock, while America was still neutral. The work is the reporting. A house can watch it. The thriller is the argument.
I was tired and the pace still carried me, which is his old trick. Under the trick, a job is being done. Someone has to name the lie while it still pays to believe the peace talk. I would tell older children that the windmill is not the point. A country that had not joined yet is being asked to look next door.
Journal
Keep Foreign Correspondent in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Night of the Hunter
79 instead of 61
The Night of the Hunter is still a thriller film, and it scores 79 instead of 61. What you gain is household: A widow's children are hunted until an old woman's house becomes the shelter.
The eight
- 8Industry
A crime reporter's job is the work, and the work is the point.
- 2Household
No spouse or child carries the story; the assignment does.
- 5Piety
He will not swallow a peace organization that is lying.
- 7Courage
He chases the story in a Europe already unsafe for a neutral.
- 8Republic
A still-neutral country is told it owes the facts next door.
- 5Temperance
The chase is a pleasure, and the warning keeps it from only that.
- 8Truth
The peace organization is a lie, and reporting is what names it.
- 6Stewardship
It leaves a warning for a public that had not joined the war.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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