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Foreign Correspondent
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7.0American 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.
Cast
- Joel McCrea as John Jones
- Laraine Day as Carol Fisher
- Herbert Marshall as Stephen Fisher
- George Sanders as Scott ffolliott
- Albert Bassermann as Van Meer
- Robert Benchley as Stebbins
Themes
- diplomat
- assassination
- chase
- parent child relationship
- world war ii
- windmill
- conspiracy
- reporter
- black and white
- crash
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- James Hilton (dialogue) Robert Benchley (dialogue)
- Screenplay by
- Charles Bennett Joan Harrison
- Produced by
- Walter Wanger
- Starring
- Joel McCrea Laraine Day Herbert Marshall George Sanders Albert Bassermann Robert Benchley
- Cinematography
- Rudolph Maté , A.S.C.
- Edited by
- Dorothy Spencer
- Music by
- Alfred Newman
- Production company
- Walter Wanger Productions
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- August 16, 1940 ( 1940-08-16 ) (U.S.)
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1,484,167
- Box office
- $1,598,435
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 945012
- Image
- Foreign Correspondent trailer 16 McCrea crop.jpg
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- Commons category
- Foreign Correspondent (film)
- publication date
- 1940-08-16
- title
- Foreign Correspondent
- review score
- 96%
- capital cost
- 1484167
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Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year-old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn.
Foreign Correspondent was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production after leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 (the first was Rebecca) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Harrison, Hilton and Benchley the only writers credited in the finished film. It was based on Vincent Sheean's political memoir Personal History (1935), the rights to which were purchased by producer Walter Wanger for $10,000.