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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.
August 21, 1874 in New York City, New York, USA
4 November 1896, Canton, Illinois, USA
16 March 1876, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
December 11, 1888 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
August 23, 1890 in London, England, UK
June 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA
15 September 1889, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
30 October 1879, London, England, UK
5 November 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
3 July 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
16 March 1910, Preston, England, UK
31 May 1915, New York City, New York, USA
February 02, 2007
...a strangely uninvolving thriller...
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
August 16, 2011
A showcase of early Hitchcock suspense.
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.
August 22, 2014
Creative Hitchcock thriller mixes fun, spectacular set pieces and political depth.
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.
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.