Foreign Correspondent 1940

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 115 min

genre: thriller

theme: spy

director: Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 6 / 10

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.

Plot

In mid-August 1939, just before the outbreak of World WarII, the editor of the New York Morning Globe, Mr. Powers (Harry Davenport), sends crime reporter John Jones, using the pen name "Huntley Haverstock" (Joel McCrea), to Europe to report on conditions there. Jones's first assignment is to interview a Dutch diplomat named Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), at a luncheon.

Awards

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

Cast

More details

author	Alfred Hitchcock Ben Hecht Budd Schulberg Charles Bennett Harold Clurman James Hilton Joan Harrison John Howard Lawson John Lee Mahin Richard Maibaum Robert Benchley Vincent Sheean
award	National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	England Netherlands
director	Alfred Hitchcock
editor	Dorothy Spencer
genre	political thriller
keywords	burn :c:file:foreign correspondent cambridge capture crime reporter drug float flying boat hide home alone hotel room jazz music kidnap kill macguffin meet morning newspaper editor pen name police officer premarital sex radio broadcast run sexual encounter short s.30 empire spy ring think torture trailer war correspondent westminster cathedral world war
musicBy	Alfred Newman
nomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Special Effects Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
producer	Walter Wanger
productionCompany	Walter Wanger Productions
publisher	United Artists
theme	political thriller spy trick