tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post3666102609879937931..comments2008-10-16T07:57:37.369-04:00T.S.noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-25979305548247174952008-10-16T07:57:00.000-04:002008-10-16T07:57:00.000-04:00Dark City Dame: That was a meticulous description of that famous Cathedral scene that really captured its essence! And I'm glad we're on the same page with Gwenn, an actor extraordinaire! Thanks.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-63377055080075071542008-10-16T01:55:00.000-04:002008-10-16T01:55:00.000-04:00Hi! S.J.,<BR/>I know that your comment is for T.S., to answer, but I really have to comment on the scene a top the Westminster Cathedral, and in that scene...actor Edmund Gwenn's character is just chatting nonchalantly, with actor Joel McCrea's character...and the next thing you know he charging actor Joel McCrea's character hands first, luckily he (McCrea) moves out the way just in time and (Edmund Gwenn's character) plunges to his death! from the top of Westminster Cathedral. The next shot a Nun crosses herself and the next day newspaper display a picture with a heavy white line of his plunge. Pure and simple...Hitch!<BR/> <BR/><BR/><BR/>S.J.said,"I thought that Edmund Gwenn in that minor role as the gentlemanly little murderer out-acted everyone else in the film."<BR/>ha!ha!...I agree with you!<BR/>Tks,<BR/>dcddarkcitydame4ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369967577590947967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-78258213055755733812008-10-15T20:30:00.000-04:002008-10-15T20:30:00.000-04:00I found FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT as a mostly splendid Hitchcock, a fast, exciting, very immaginative and strongly reminiscent of his British thrillers. I fondly remember several set-pieces including an attempted murder on the top of Westminster Cathedral, a brilliant sequence in an isolated Dutch windmill, and above all, a magnificently handled assassination scene in pouring rain. (Of course the ones you pointed out were just as memorable). You rightly praise the visual elements and your historical discourse is once again engaging. I thought that Edmund Gwenn in that minor role as the gentlemanly little murderer out-acted everyone else in the film.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-84383189727651083052008-10-15T11:15:00.000-04:002008-10-15T11:15:00.000-04:00Hi! T.S.,<BR/>Once again!..a very interesting review of a film that I do "classify" as one of Hitchcock's best!...I do agree with you some scenes in Hitch's 1940 film "Foreign Correspondent" are <I>"visually"</I> stunning! and according to the author of the book Hitchcock's Notebook [The title has been edited] Dan Auiler, "Foreign Correspondent is a "great"-well designed film with some very effective Hitchcock moments" <B>...Well, I guess I can say, that a "consensus" has been reached when it comes to the film "Foreign Correspondent" and Hitchcock's "touches."</B> <BR/><BR/>"...the heaviest restriction put on him was the Hays Office's enforcement of the Neutrality Act, <BR/>which the United States had passed in the 1930s to keep the nation out of international warfare. As such, the Foreign Correspondent script couldn't specifically indict the Germans as the evil-doers in Europe so Hitchcock and his writers went with an imaginary European country (modeled after the Germans, of course)." <BR/><B>I always wondered why?!? the <I>"evil doers"</I> were never identified specifically, in the film "Foreign Correspondent"...Now I know!</B><BR/>Tks,<BR/>dcdthe editor.,http://www.blogger.com/profile/10606359132036891911noreply@blogger.com