Foreign Correspondent (1940 Alfred Hitchcock)

Well overdue, terrific writing by Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison, with dialogue by James Hilton (yes, Lost Horizon) and Robert Benchley (who also appears as milk-drinking correspondent), good acting even in small parts (becoming to me a Hitch trait).

Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall (terrifically subtle), George Sanders (bouncy), Albert Basserman, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Cianelli (Krug), Harry Davenport, Ian Wolfe (butler), Eddie Conrad (Latvian). Good team also behind camera, Rudolph Maté shooting Alexander Golitzen sets, Dorothy Spencer editing and Alfred Newman's music.

Great back-projected chase sequence, funny script based on misunderstandings between couple (Conrad acting as a kind of Cupid), throwaway tense moments (raincoat caught in windmill), incredible sequence with tortured Basserman (almost surreal), terrific effects in shipwreck sequence.