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.| Status: | Released (1940-08-16) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 6 Oscars. 1 win & 6 nominations total |
| Screen: | Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton |
| Productions: | Walter Wanger Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Latviešu |
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- 20501: Joel McCrea - John Jones
- 41245: Laraine Day - Carol Fisher
- 2435: Herbert Marshall - Stephen Fisher
- 3361: George Sanders - Scott ffolliott
- 29137: Albert Bassermann - Van Meer
- 94433: Robert Benchley - Stebbins
- 22600: Edmund Gwenn - Rowley
Crews
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Director - Directing
- 3599: Charles Bennett - Screenplay - Writing
- 69513: Joan Harrison - Screenplay - Writing
- 8503: Alfred Newman - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 11593: Rudolph Maté - Director of Photography - Camera
- 14962: Dorothy Spencer - Editor - Editing
- 1351504: Edmond F. Bernoudy - Assistant Director - Directing
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If you enjoy this review, please check out my blog, Old Hat Cinema, at https://oldhatcinema.medium.com/ for more reviews and other cool content. Alfred Hitchcock’s second American picture, Foreign Correspondent (1940), has quite literally everything you could ask for in a great mo ....
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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 ha ....
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