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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense | Thriller | Crime

Overview

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 journalist to uncover the truth.

Rated NR | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Joel McCrea | Laraine Day | Herbert Marshall | George Sanders | Albert Bassermann | Robert Benchley | Edmund Gwenn | Eduardo Ciannelli | Harry Davenport | Martin Kosleck | Frances Carson | Ian Wolfe | Charles Wagenheim | Eddie Conrad | Charles Halton | Barbara Pepper | Emory Parnell | Roy Gordon | Gertrude Hoffmann | Marten Lamont | Barry Bernard | Holmes Herbert | Leonard Mudie | John Burton | Samuel Adams | Meeka Aldrich | Jack Alfred | Bunny Beatty | Frank Benson | Billy Bester | Henry Blair | Becky Bohanon | Louis Borell | Barbara Boudwin | Betty Bradley | Louise Brien | Ronald Brown | Horace B. Carpenter | Willy Castello | George Cathrey | Wheaton Chambers | Ken Christy | E.E. Clive | Gino Corrado | Maurice Costello | John Dawson | Harry Depp | Elspeth Dudgeon | Carl Ekberg | Helena Phillips Evans | Herbert Evans | James Finlayson | Robert Fischer | George B. French | Bill Gavier | Jack George | Douglas Gordon | Alexander Granach | Richard Hammond | Sam Harris | Alfred Hitchcock | Otto Hoffman | Billy Horn | Paul Irving | Colin Kenny | Crauford Kent | Joan Leslie | Gwendolyn Logan | Eily Malyon | Eric Mayne | Jackie McGee | John Meredith | Thomas Mizer | Edmund Mortimer | John T. Murray | Henry Norton | Jane Novak | George Offerman Jr. | Lawrence Osman | Hilda Plowright | Thomas Pogue | Jack Rice | Ronald R. Rondell | Loulette Sablon | Harry Semels | Raymond Severn | Frederick Sewell | Ernie Stanton | William Stelling | Donald Stuart | Paul Sutton | Ferris Taylor | Dorothy Vaughan | Jack Voglin | Hans von Morhart | Larry Wheat | Bert White | William Yetter Sr. | Mary Young | Herschel Graham

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Viewing Notes

The print on the Criterion disc is outstanding with beautiful film grain and excellent contrast. Not my favorite Hitchcock, even though it was nominated for an Academy Award (lost to Hitchcock’s other 1940 film, REBECCA) but the scene in the windmill and the hotel room escape scene are perfect, breathtaking examples of Hitchcock’s style. The plane crash is also pretty epic and gruesome for 1940, hinting at things to come in later films like THE BIRDS.

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