It's been far too long since this household did any sort of Fright Night with the great suspense director Alfred Hitchcock! So, we are starting out early with a new idea: random Hitchcock movies from a grab bag. First up is his patriot newspaper mystery intrigue set in London on the eve of World War II. Hitchcock, it seems, was the only director who really saw the writing on the wall about where Europe was headed way back in the 1930's, and that somewhere was nowhere good (!); he made several films even before coming over to Hollywood on the subject. Foreign Correspondent was his last before all out war hit the continent and the US was drug into a multi-front global was. It's plot is a basic mystery spiced up with colorful characters, like Carol Fisher (portrayed with absolute comedic conviction by actress Laraine Day). An American foreign correspondent finds himself unexpectedly caught up in a secret plot in, of all places, Latvia, and he and Ms. Fisher must flush out and expose spies before it's too late. Problem is, will anyone believe them?
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