USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

Alphabetical Listing of Movie Reviews

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Foreign Correspondent -- With war threatening in Europe, a bumptious American newspaper reporter (Joel McCrea) stumbles upon a Nazi spy ring in Holland, escapes to London where he falls for the daughter (Laraine Day) of a peace leader (Herbert Marshall) and, after various attempts on his life, finally manages to get his story of a Nazi plot to the American public. Director Alfred Hitchcock turns in a masterful suspense thriller with some chuckles and a lot of clever business along the way, from an official's assassination amidst a rainswept maelstrom of umbrellas to a plane crash at sea, but the characters are cardboard and the script's antifascist rhetoric is dated. Much menace. (A-II) (nr) ( 1940 )

These movies have been evaluated for artistic merit and moral suitability by the media reviewing division of Catholic News Service. The reviews include the CNS rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.

The classifications are as follows:

A-I -- general patronage;
A-II -- adults and adolescents;
A-III -- adults;
L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
O -- morally offensive.

Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.