Foreign Correspondent poster
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison

Foreign Correspondent

Tagline: The thrill spectacle of the year!

Release Date: 1940-08-16

Duration: 120 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Man with Newspaper on Street (uncredited)
  • Edmund Gwenn
    Rowley
  • Eduardo Ciannelli
    Mr. Krug
  • Emory Parnell
    'Mohican' Captain
  • Otto Hoffman
    New York Globe Teletype Operator (uncredited)
  • George Sanders
    Scott ffolliott
  • Bunny Beatty
    Man (uncredited)
  • Sam Harris
    Luncheon Guest (uncredited)
  • Herbert Marshall
    Stephen Fisher
  • Dorothy Vaughan
    Jones' Mother (uncredited)