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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

NR 08/16/1940 (US) Thriller, Mystery, Action 2h

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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

Director
Charles Bennett

Screenplay
Richard Maibaum

Screenplay
Joan Harrison

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Joel McCrea

John Jones
Laraine Day

Carol Fisher
Herbert Marshall

Stephen Fisher
George Sanders

Scott ffolliott
Albert Bassermann

Van Meer
Robert Benchley

Stebbins
Edmund Gwenn

Rowley
Eduardo Ciannelli

Mr. Krug
Harry Davenport

Mr. Powers
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A review by CinemaSerf

70%

Written by CinemaSerf on March 28, 2022

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 he becomes embroiled in the affairs of the mysterious "Peace Party" leader "Van Meer" (Albert Bassermann) who may (or may not) have been gunned down and who may (or may not) have been party to a treaty that could change or even avert the course of war. Together with fellow journo George Sanders ("ff... read the rest.

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