Foreign Correspondent

1940 · directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Rating

80/100

Hit

yes

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.

Foreign Correspondent (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, rates 80/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

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

Crew

• Rudolph Maté — Director of Photography
• Dorothy Spencer — Editor
• Alfred Newman — Original Music Composer
• Charles Bennett — Screenplay
• Joan Harrison — Screenplay
• Richard Maibaum — Screenplay

More from Alfred Hitchcock

1. Rear Window (1954) — 100/100 · hit
2. North by Northwest (1959) — 99/100 · hit
3. Vertigo (1958) — 99/100 · hit
4. Psycho (1960) — 99/100 · hit
5. Rebecca (1940) — 89/100 · hit
6. Notorious (1946) — 86/100 · hit

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