New to Blu-ray: Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Criterion Collection are releasing Foreign Correspondent (1940) on Blu-ray on February 18th, 2014.

Features:

  • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • New piece on the visual effects in the film with effects expert Craig Barron
  • Hollywood Propaganda and World War II, a new interview with writer Mark Harris
  • Interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show (previously available as part of a DVD box set)
  • Radio adaptation of the film from 1946, starring Joseph Cotten
  • Have You Heard? The Story of Wartime Rumors, a 1942 Life magazine “photo-drama” by Hitchcock
  • Trailer
  • A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore

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