Story Line
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.
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Top Cast
Joel McCrea
John Jones
Laraine Day
Carol Fisher
Herbert Marshall
Stephen Fisher
George Sanders
Scott ffolliott
Albert Bassermann
Van Meer
Robert Benchley
Stebbins
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Rating
7.0/ 10
Release Date
1940-08-16
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
ThrillerMysteryAction
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barrymost
10/10
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Alfred Hitchcock’s second American picture, Foreign Correspondent (1940), has quite literally everythi...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•3/28/2022Alfred Hitchcock presides over quite a fast paced jigsaw-puzzle of a film with this gripping WII espionage thriller. Joel McCrae is the American reporter "John Jones" who is despatched by his editor to get decent news coverage of what's going on in w...