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Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache are taut, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder, made in 1944 to aid the war effort. But when British government officials saw Hitchcock's films, they labeled them "inflammatory," shelved them and tried to forget they were ever made. In 1939, with England just a few months from plunging into World War II, the country's most celebrated filmmaker was on his way to America to join David O. Selznick's company. Alfred Hitchcock had begun his directorial career in 1925. With the advent of sound, he embarked on a series of craftily constructed, excitingly cinematic thrillers that would bring him great fame. The success of films like The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938), both at home and abroad, translated into offers from Hollywood, where Hitchcock hoped to freehimself from the economic constrictions and technical deficiencies that seriously hindered the British film industry. Hitchcock's American period got off to a splendid start with the gothic romance Rebecca (1940), and he remained in the U.S. for the rest of his life. His ties to England, however, were many, and the outcome of the war across the Atlantic, and ever present concern. Foreign Correspondent (1940), his second Hollywood feature, was an exhilarating propaganda piece in the form of a thriller that after many bravura sequences climaxed with Joal McCrea's impassioned exhortation for the U.S. to join in the fight against Hitler.
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