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I saved my revenge until the last minutes...and ejected the tape before it could end: I just didn't care and couldn't watch another minute.
Foreign Correspondent is the worst, by some magnitude, Hitch film I've ever come across (worse by far than that travesty with Paul Newman, The Torn Curtain).
The "plot" is ridiculous, many scenes are inept (the first scene in which McCrea sneaks around the windmill steps? Oh, c'mon...) and there is NO continuity.
Joel McCrea proves yet again he was the worst leading man of his generation: you want a lesson in the phrase "wooden acting" observe him.
Now, what George Sanders was doing in it I don't know. He is a pleasure to watch, however, even in such a waste of film stock.
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Joel McCrea the worst leading man of his generation...the definition of "wooden" acting? That doesn't describe the actor who starred in two Preston Sturges' films ("Sullivan's Travels" and "The Palm Beach Story") and Sam Peckinpah's "Ride the High Country".Of course, if I was working with the zipper of Claudette Colbert's dress with her sitting on my lap, perhaps I would be "wooden" too!
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many movie guides, including The Video Hound, give it four stars (out of four). It's considered one of Hitch's top four or five films, and I for for one thought it was riveting from beginning to end.Joel McCrea was a fine actor, perhaps not in the same league as some of the big names of the time such as Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper, but a decent actor nonetheless. His work in "Dead End" (1937) was well received and is still worth watching.
What in the hell were YOU thinking??
...but it's very enjoyable. The set pieces (assassination on the steps, windmill, plane crash) are very well staged and thrilling. True, McCrea is not the best Hitch leading man, but how many could top Grant or Stewart for that title? And, as we all know, how important are the actors in a Hitch film? Not very, according to Sir Alfred.Doug
get all your opinions from them, no matter thinking.
No critic with 2 eyes and a working brain ranks this film anywhere near the top. What a hoot!
Above (off the top of my shiny head): Vertigo, N by NW, Psycho, Rebecca, Man on the Train, The Birds, etc.?
One of the more ridiculous scenes involved Jones climbing out of the room onto the balcony and into the beaudoir of the damsel: he talks, talks, she talks, talks...zero suspense.
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that's the purpose of this forum. If we want published opinions, we'd go get 'em elsewhere, but why someone would go to the Hound is anyone's guess...
Video Hound is the only "review-book" that actually acknowledges this film exists. It was in Maltin's book back in the 80s, but was edited out long, long ago.Wendy Hughes and some guy. Wendy Hughes and some girl playing the guy's wife. Wendy Hughes and some guy playing her husband. Wendy Hughes and some kids playing college students.
A masterpiece. Can't wait til it's finally released on Region 1 DVD.
Just for mentioning this one film, Video Hound is worth a look while I am browsing at the Barnes & Noble!
Think twice.
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posturing of this film absurd and completely unforgivable.
A professional woman of that age shocked at her fiancee booking a single room? Or showing up in her dressing room? C'mon.
Voyons mon vieux!When was this film made?!!!!!
You know what " Victorian charm " means?
Beside the fact that showing up in a pyjamas in a lady´s room with forty guests, would be something I would consider...Don´t you?
And if we would take this criteria in account we could just dismisse the majority of films made before 1950....You have to have a second ( or first ) look at " Sado´s Pasolini....He-he
Nothing it seems....
You have to replace this film in the context of the time. Yet America had to be lured to step in the war. The end speaks for itself.
Have you heard of propaganda film?
With The great Dictactor it is one of the best in this kind, for me, of course.
No continuty?
Well tell me more about that...
Now I already must answer my own post!
Victor WHERE are you?????
Continuity. Really, I don't know what film you've watched if you argue the point.
Some of the more ridiculous parts (so many, many more): Jones sends his friends off to get the cops (who have gone off into the distance when it is clearly seen no car could be there) but they never return, he walks to town engages in some banter and is shocked when finally cops return with him there are no badguys, no tracks from the car, what happened to the plane and the cops never saw it, landing strip in a marsh, hide in the windmill room, up AND down the stairs unobserved by five or six guys----well, a sensible observer at some point says "Whoa!"
Zero suspense.
Maybe we are arguing for nothing! This film and I remember well, has been severly cut in the past! Maybe you have seen this version?
The full film has been restaured ten years ago or so.So to the facts:
When Jones comes back to the mills with the cops from the town, his friends just came back from the other direction ( you can see the car on the RIGHT side of the road )with the police, they just meet at this point.
A little short maybe, but still logical.
The men took the car away and the plane took of!
But you know what a Mc Guffin his?
the bad guys (a lot of 'em) are in the windmill, just escaped from a bunch of cops, and NOT ONE of them looks out the window to see the cops go by or see our hero Jones walk up to the windmill? C'mon!
The problem is the way you saw it. It is just not your cup of tea. It is more of an atmosphere story than a logical to logical one.
You just have to lay back and enjoy...Or not.
Your lost.PS: GS only for that cad is this film worth!
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