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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