Foreign Correspondent (1940)



Genres
Thriller Spy
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
Robert Benchley
Charles Bennett
Joan Harrison
James Hilton
Composer
Alfred Newman
Director of Photography
Rudolph Mate

Review
McCrea in title role caught in middle of spy ring with reporters Sanders and Benchley, innocent Day, suspicious father Marshall. Tremendously entertaining film with several vintage Hitchcock showpieces. Scripted by Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison; dialogue by James Hilton and Benchley.

Trivia
Albert Basserman who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer couldn't speak a word of English and learnt all his lines phonetically.

Cameo

Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the movie walking past Joel McCrea's hotel reading a newspaper.

Albert Basserman
Van Meer
Robert Benchley
Stebbins
Barry Bernard
Steward
John Burton
English Announcer
Frances Carson
Mrs. Sprague
Edward Ciannelli
Mr. Krug
Edward Conrad
Latvian
Harry Davenport
Mr. Powers
Laraine Day
Carol Fisher
Roy Gordon
Mr. Brood
Edmund Gwenn
Rowley
Charles Halton
Bradley
Holmes Herbert
Asst. Commissioner
Gertrude Hoffman
Mrs. Benson
Martin Kosleck
Tramp
Martin Lamont
Plane Captain
Herbert Marshall
Stephen Fisher
Joel McCrea
Johnny Jones
Leonard Mudie
McKenna
Emory Parnell
Mohican Captain
Barbara Pepper
Dorine
George Sanders
Scott Folliott
Charles Wagenheim
Assassin
Ian Wolfe
Stiles

 



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