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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 3/07

3/07: Having seen The 39 Steps plenty of times, Foreign Correspondent seems a remake.

The performances are shoddy. Laraine Day gets on my nerves. Joel McCrea is an eh. The story is inept, and there are boring scenes with too much dialogue.

However, there's one thing I like. It's when the plane was shot down by a German U-boat before crashing. Using the bird's-eye view, Alfred Hitchcock shows how small the passengers are compared to the sea.

All in all, skip Foreign Correspondent as The 39 Steps is way better.

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