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- 1940
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h
- 1940
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h
Summary On the eve of WW2, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
- 1940
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h
- 1940
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h
Foreign Correspondent
7.8
Where to Watch
Summary On the eve of WW2, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
89
100% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Yes, “schmaltzy” and “corny” fit in any description of this 1940 film. The soundstages don’t do justice to Holland or London or the North Atlantic. But what plays over 80 years later is the wit, the Ben Hecht (“The Front Page”) and Benchley-written exchanges between the posh Brit and the American trying to work his way into the political inner circles where Europe was about to take a stand against fascism.
It's one of Hitchcock's most inventive works, a great favorite of French director Jean Renoir. [24 Sep 1995, p.71]
Foreign Correspondent seems a sterling example of how the director could help the war effort by using current events as a launching point for his signature brand of suspense.
Where the film separates itself from the director’s other early studio work and, indeed, many films of the period, is in its ambition and scope of its production. The aforementioned set pieces are not only memorable, they’re among the most impressively mounted action sequences to that point.
Intermittently first-rate.
Story is essentially the old cops-and-robbers. But it has been set in a background of international political intrigue of the largest order.
A bit ham-fisted in its call to arms, Foreign Correspondent also fails in trying to force a romance between McCrea and Day. But there are plenty of signature Hitchcock sequences to recommend it.
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Generally Favorable
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Generally Favorable
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Production Company
Walter Wanger Productions
Release Date Aug 16, 1940
Duration 2 h
Rating Approved
Tagline MYSTERY IN WHISPERS that cracks like THUNDER! (original print ad - many caps)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 6 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
