Foreign Correspondent

Movie

1940

2h 0m

English

Thriller, Mystery, Action, War

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7.5

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American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journal...

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Foreign Correspondent

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1940

2h 0m

English

Thriller, Mystery, Action, War

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Cast

John Jones

Carol Fisher

Stephen Fisher

Scott ffolliott

Van Meer

Stebbins

Rowley

Mr. Krug

Mr. Powers

Tramp

Mrs. Sprague

Stiles

Assassin

Latvian

Bradley

Dorine

'Mohican' Captain

Mr. Brood

Mrs. Benson

Captain

Steward

Asst. Commissioner

McKenna

English Announcer

Van Meer's Impersonator (uncredited...

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Written By: Richard Maibaum (Screenplay), Charles Bennett (Screenplay), + 1 more

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kaymon says...

4 months ago

All of Hitchcock’s films contain a mix of genre so it’s interesting to see what he makes out of a political thriller mystery with a romantic subplot, something completely unlike anything else he would become known for. The film is tense and dramatic as needed but spends long amounts of time in a comedic gear, with McCrea getting to fire off Grantesque screwball delivery. Laraine Day is waaaay too young to be his love interest but at least she’s written as intelligent and with some amount of agency. Would make an interesting double feature with The Great Dictator, released just two months later.

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apinewb says...

5 years ago

Really liked the movie. I liked the Patriotism. Pretty cool that Alfred Hitchcock had two movies up for the Oscar at the same time. The other one was Rebecca.

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bladefd

7/10 9 months ago

This is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earlier movies before his career took off. A New York newspaper reporter, Johnny Jones, is assigned the position of a foreign correspondent in Europe to cover a peace treaty to prevent World War 2. His first task is to interview a diplomat Van Meer, who was leadin More

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CinemaSerf

3 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock presides over quite a fast paced jigsaw-puzzle of a film with this gripping WII espionage thriller. Joel McCrae is the American reporter "John Jones" who is despatched by his editor to get decent news coverage of what's going on in war-threatened Europe. No sooner has he landed than More

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barrymost

4 years ago

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Alfred Hitchcock’s second American picture, Foreign Correspondent (1940), has quite literally everything you could ask for in a great movie. To catego More

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