Foreign Correspondent - 1940 **** 1/2

What started off as a mediocre picture, turned into something utterly compelling and fast-paced. Joel McCrea is an American Reporter who is sent to cover some exciting stories and see if he can expose any enemy spies in wartime Britain. Of course he gets tangled up in espionage and is before long fearing for his life when he uncovers a dangerous spy ring which is too close for comfort. He also meets lovely and innocent Laraine Day, whose father (played superbly by Herbert Marshall) is not all that he seems. Add George Sanders into the mix and you have a damn good film, especially baring in mind that filming for it finished only a week before the War broke out for real. Quite heart-breaking when you watch it from that angle. Hitchcock remains the Master of Suspense.

Champagne - 1928 ***

Ha! Don't you love these quirky little posters you get for really old movies?

'Champagne' was a good film, and although Hitchcock constantly said how much of a problem he had with comedies, he actually did this one really well.

Betty Balfour has one of the most expressive faces of the silent screen that I have seen, and I thought she did a very amusing job here as the daughter of a wealthy city tycoon who decides to squander much of his fortune on a cruise ship with her boyfriend, but her father isn't going to stand for that, believing that her boyfriend is only after the money...

Worth a watch, and fantastic in my opinion to see the typically 20s clothes on the 2 main stars (Betty Balfour makes a fantastic flapper!).