At the Apollo: Hitchcock is back with ‘Foreign Correspondent’
From a press release from Bill Knight:
Filmmaking giant Alfred Hitchcock is again featured at downtown Peoria’s Apollo Theater on Friday, June 6, when his 1940 thriller “Foreign Correspondent†will start a summer season featuring monthly Saturday matinees.
Starring Joel McCrea and Laraine Day, the two-hour classic is a tale of espionage and danger in London during World War II – before the United States entered the conflict.
McCrea is an American newspaperman assigned to cover a peace conference in Great Britain, where he befriends an elderly diplomat and also falls in love with the daughter of the peace group’s founder. When the diplomat is abducted, the reporter exposes a Nazi spy ring headed by … his lover’s dad!
Co-starring George Sanders, Edmund Gwenn and Albert Bassermann, the Oscar-nominated movie features a small role by humorist Robert Benchley, who co-wrote the screenplay.
Meanwhile, starting at noon on Saturday, June 6 with the comedy “Galaxy Quest,†the Apollo will host summer matinees at discounted prices. Other matinee films will be the great western “Shane†at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12, and classic comics including W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, and Harold Lloyd at 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 2.
Admission at the nonprofit Apollo is $5 and $4 for kids and seniors, $3 for matinees. Shows start at 7 p.m.; for details call (309) 673-4343.
