FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT


 "FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT" -- (1940) -- 

MY THOUGHTS: I love this movie. It impresses me on a number of levels. The screenplay and the acting are just excellent! Once again, an Alfred Hitchcock film had me totally captivated until the end. This one is totally worth the watch!
SYNOPSIS: "Crime reporter John Jones is turning in nothing but dull copy. His editor, unhappy with his work, hopes a change of scenery will be the thing Jones needs to get back on track. Re-assigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent, Jones is very much out of his element. When he stumbles on a spy ring, he feels ill-equipped to unravel the truth alone and he seeks help from a beautiful politician's daughter and an urbane English journalist."
STARRING: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders and Edmund Gwenn.
SCREENPLAY: This film had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Harrison, Hilton and Benchley the only writers credited in the finished film. It was based on Vincent Sheean's political memoir "Personal History" (1935).
DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
AWARDS & HONORS:
It was nominated for six (6) Academy Awards but won none of them.

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