In the same year, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director for the Best Picture-winning filmRebecca (1940)- his first American film (Foreign Correspondentwas Hitchcock""s second film in 1940).The camera effect is used in his scene, and in the first mission stairwell sequence.]When the policeman attempts to reach out his hand and rescue his buddy ("Give me your hand"), he loses his balance, and slips and falls to his death [the first of three horrifying screams and falls in the film].Once their newborn progeny emerged from the sand, they faced a perilous journey to the water.Sebastian and Violet watched in horror as the newly-hatched little creatures made a "desperate flight to the sea." In his dressing room, Spider Rico read Rocky a Bible passage (Zachariah 4:6: "It is not by strength, not by might but by his spirit we have already claimed the victory in our Lord Jesus Christ").The first view of D.B.Norton - the influential, self-interested, would-be ""vicious"" politician (and fifth-column Fascist leader) - is on horseback as he watches his own black-jacketed para-military corps of motorcycle corps (the D.