Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

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One of Alfred Hitchcock’s trademarks was to put very ordinary people suddenly in extraordinary situations, and to have them — usually — beat the odds, with all the “experts,” high-society mavens, politicians, spies, and organized criminals set against them. Now if you add to that recipe a clarion call for courage and action against darkness descending …

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