Foreign Correspondent
The film starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. An American journalist is responsible for covering the volatile war scene in Europe for his newspaper. He attempts to expose enemy agents in Lon Don so he always is in danger.
26 September 1877, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
31 May 1915, New York City, New York, USA
November 29, 1890 in Swaffham, Norfolk, England, UK
19 January 1866, New York City, New York, USA
August 28, 1886 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
18 April 1893, Wierzbowce, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbovcy, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
December 19, 1897 in Yugoslavia
16 March 1910, Preston, England, UK
June 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA
23 May 1890, London, England, UK
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
25 March 1888, Henrietta, Texas, USA
February 20, 2014
It's such an entertaining film that it's almost possible to forget its didactic agenda, which is certainly part of the point.
February 18, 2014
A fitfully crackerjack picture with astonishing mise-en-scène...some memorable set pieces to take advantage of same, and flashes of Hitchockian wit... [Criterion Blu-ray/DVD]
January 28, 2006
Into it Director Alfred Hitchcock, whose unmistakable stamp the picture bears, has packed about as much romantic action, melodramatic hullabaloo, comical diversion and illusion of momentous consequence as the liveliest imagination could conceive.
March 20, 2008
Due to the rapidly changing political context, more writers worked on the script than on any Hitchcock thriller, but end result is satisfying (if not credible), and even Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels acknowledged the movie was a masterpiece.
August 22, 2014
Creative Hitchcock thriller mixes fun, spectacular set pieces and political depth.
March 26, 2009
Story is essentially the old cops-and-robbers. But it has been set in a background of international political intrigue of the largest order.
April 18, 2014
While Albert Bassermann earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for a somewhat hammy turn, the best performance comes from George Sanders, atypically cast as a fearless and resourceful hero rather than the cads and scoundrels he generally played.
January 26, 2006
Hitchcock's espionage thriller is a thoroughly enjoyable affair, complete with some of his most memorable set pieces.
February 20, 2014
It doesn't always proceed as smoothly as some of Hitchcock's best films, but it is never anything less than grandly entertaining.
February 02, 2007
...a strangely uninvolving thriller...
March 27, 2009
This film contains one of Hitchcock's most famous set pieces -- an assassination in the rain -- but otherwise remains a second-rate effort, as immensely enjoyable as it is.
August 16, 2011
A showcase of early Hitchcock suspense.
