E.E. Clive

A hapless hero tries to stay in front of a glib-tongued spy-master.

A hapless hero tries to stay in front of a glib-tongued spy-master.

Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent was an extension of his work on The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes -- but this time out, he was working in Hollywood with top American (and British) talent at his disposal. The result was his first international-scale thriller, carrying us across the Atlantic with a hapless hero (Joel McCrea) trying to stay in front of a glib-tongued spy-master (Herbert Marshall), all of it strangely anticipatory of the director's North By Northwest (right down to the hero's juggling a couple of names).

Oscar-winning adaption of Jane Austins comic classic about five husband-hunting sisters in 19th-century England. Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver," Madame Curie") stars in this vivid recreation of the Victorian era. Co-starring Oscar and Golden Globe-winners Laurence Olivier ("Hamlet," "Henry V") and Edmund Gwenn ("Miracle on 34th Street"), Oscar-nominee Edna May Oliver ("Little Women") and Maureen O'Sullivan ("Tarzan and His Mate").