While he watches unobserved his coat.gets caught in the mechanism of the mill, and before he is aware of what is happening he has been drawn up alibiest into the huge cogs. He is left the alternative of certain death between the wheels or certain death at the hands of the terrorists, if he informs them of his presence. How he solves this dilemma is also worthy of the name of climax.
A third degree is, appropriately, the third in this climactic series, and thods they use are as original as they are effective, Fourth on the list is perhaps the passengers, Joel MeCrea and Loraine, Day among them, tempt a8 agonir ing escape, If there is a super-climax to "Foreign Correspondent," this is it.
Students are taught that the ditto climax following the big climax is an anti-climax. "Foreign Corres-pendent" has one of these, too, but there's nothing very anti-climactic about it. After McCrea and Miss Day make their escape from the clipper, they go to an unnamed European capital and there, in the radio station, broadcast their experiences to the world. But just as they go on the ait there is a crash, and the whole studio begins to rock. The building is being bombed.
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