Thursday, September 13, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent's Three Trailer Plan and Launch Film Festival

The following is a quick article from the Motion Picture Herald (dated July 27, 1940).

"Three trailers are being made by Walter Wagner for his 'Foreign Correspondent' to be released by United Artists. The first 80 feet in length, will incorporate scenes directed by Alfred Hitchcock; the second, 120 feet, will stress the film's leading players, and the third, 265 feet will be general. They will be released three, two weeks and one week prior to first run openings."


The next article is not only in the same issue of Motion Picture Herald, but on the same page.


"The Newark Sunday Call has launched a 12-week film festival for under privileged children on a non-profit basis at the Little Theater, Newark. The films to be shown during the festival will be revivals chosen by readers in a poll conducted by the newspaper. Readers also, in the poll, voted for duals two to one. The films selected, alphabetically, are 'A Star is Born' 'The Awful Truth' 'Captains Courageous' 'Cavalcade' 'The Citadel' 'Count of Monte Cristo' 'Dark Victory' 'Dodsworth' 'Goodbye Mr. Chips' 'The Good Earth' 'It Happened One Night' 'Lost Horizon' 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' 'Mutiny on the Bounty' 'My Man Godfrey' 'Nothing Sacred' ' Of Human Bondage' 'Pygmalion' 'Rose Marie' 'San Francisco' 'Sweethearts' 'Theodora Goes Wild' 'Three Smart Girls' and 'The Women.'"

-Michael J. Ruhland      

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