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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

120 min · Mysterie, Romance Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, political thriller film, spy film, suspense film, thriller film, war film

Popularity4.5/5
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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport

The story

thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:18|Trailer for Foreign Correspondent In mid-August 1939, just before the outbreak of World WarII, the editor of the New York Morning Globe, Mr. Powers, sends crime reporter John Jones, using the pen name "Huntley Haverstock", to Europe to report on conditions there. thumb|left|250px|Joel McCrea as "John Jones", foreign correspondent Jones's first assignment is to interview a Dutch diplomat named Van Meer, at a luncheon.

Catalogue themes and tags

Thriller, Political thriller, Spy, Black-and-white, War film

Genres

Mysterie, Romance Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, political thriller film, spy film, suspense film, thriller film, war film

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