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March 05, 2014
DVD Savant: Foreign Correspondent, Margin For Error, and Jupiter's Darling
This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: Foreign Correspondent - this breathlessly paced concoction of wit and serious wartime anxiety is Alfred Hitchcock's best all-time 'spy chase' picture. Joel McCrea and Laraine Day try to free a harmless Peace delegate from the clutches of Nazi villains, while discovering that people in their own camp are closeted traitors; Margin For Error - Otto Preminger directed and stars in this half-serious, half-comic tale of skullduggery in the Nazi Embassy in New York, 1939. Preminger is the nasty consul holding his own wife (Joan Bennett) prisoner and seeking to cover up his foolish gambling losses by framing staff member Carl Esmond for embezzlement and NYPD cop Milton Berle (?... !!) for murder; and Jupiter's Darling - Esther Williams' last MGM picture has one sensational underwater swimming musical number, but mostly sticks with an epic farce about a patrician beauty who uses herself as amorous bait to save glorious Rome from being overrun by the dedicated conqueror Hannibal. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.
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