Synopsis
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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Cast
- Joel McCreaJohn Jones
- Laraine DayCarol Fisher
- Herbert MarshallStephen Fisher
- George SandersScott Ffolliott
- Albert BassermannVan Meer
- Robert BenchleyStebbins
- Edmund GwennRowley
- Eduardo CiannelliMr. Krug
- Harry DavenportMr. Powers
- Martin KosleckTramp
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
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. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
One of Hitchcock's greatest entertainments, Foreign Correspondent is also a stirring propaganda piece which clearly indicts the Nazi regime. - 91
The A.V. Club
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. - 90
The Dissolve
It’s such an entertaining film that it’s almost possible to forget its didactic agenda, which is certainly part of the point. - 88
Slant Magazine
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. - 80
Time Out
A thoroughly enjoyable affair, complete with some of his most memorable set pieces. - 80
Variety
Story is essentially the old cops-and-robbers. But it has been set in a background of international political intrigue of the largest order. - 80
Empire
Heavy-handed but still poignant patriotism in this Hitchcock thriller.
