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Club Indigo to present Hitchcock film June 3

By Joe Kirkish

HOUGHTON -- The Mu Beta Psi music fraternity presents the June food and film event (Club Indigo) Friday, June 3, at the Calumet Theatre. The movie is vintage Alfred Hitchcock, Foreign Correspondent.

With Europe on the brink of war and the United States turning a deaf ear to it, a young correspondent is sent to London to cover a Peace Conference that hopes to avert the catastrophe. Almost immediately, he becomes embroiled in his new life, first in London, then, later, in Amsterdam, where he witnesses a brutal murder and is hounded by the authorities on one side and the assassins on the other.

It is typical man-in-the-wrong-place-and-on-the-run material that later made Hitchcock famous and which spawned films like North by Northwest and The Wrong Man.

Foreign Correspondent, made in 1940, is the only film in which the great director of suspense mixes comedy with seriousness in a political situation. It has been considered by some critics to be his finest and most important film. It contains remarkable set pieces that include the daring assassination under a sea of umbrellas, a plane crash in the ocean, haunting moments inside a huge windmill and one death-defying chase after another. The culminating moments are true genius, setting Hitchcock up as a director and master of suspense.

The movie begins at 7:15 p.m., preceded at 6 p.m. by a Dutch gourmet buffet created by chef Erik Karvonen of Eagle River's Fitzgerald restaurant. Reservations for the buffet must be made at least a day in advance, by calling the Calumet Theatre: 337-2610. Cost for the film/buffet combination is still $15. Movie alone, $5. Half price for children for either or both.

Foreign Correspondent is sponsored by the Mu Beta Psi music fraternity and the Country Stores of Copper Harbor.

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