

Foreign Correspondent
The thrill spectacle of the year!
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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- Language
- English
- diplomat
- assassination
- chase
- parent child relationship
- world war ii
- windmill
- conspiracy
- reporter
- black and white
- crash
- captive
- bell tower
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical16 Aug 1940
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical(Rated A)11 Oct 1940
- PhysicalPG26 Jun 1986
- PhysicalPG6 Feb 1997
- PhysicalPG4 Mar 2003
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical5 Dec 1940
- PhysicalPGBlu-ray7 Jan 2026
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG16 Aug 1940
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1526 Aug 1946
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1221 Mar 1952
GermanyDE
- Theatrical161 Dec 1961
ItalyIT
- Theatrical30 Dec 1946
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG1211 Sept 1976
NetherlandsNL
- TV12Nederland 230 Jun 2007
- Physical12DVD26 Jul 2007
SwedenSE
- Theatrical151 Mar 1941
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Foreign Correspondent was released on 16 August 1940.
Audience reviews
2- B10/10
barrymost
2/20/2021
If you enjoy this review, please check out my blog, Old Hat Cinema, at https://oldhatcinema.medium.com/ for more reviews and other cool content. Alfred Hitchcock’s second American picture, Foreign Correspondent (1940), has quite literally everything you could ask for in a great movie. To categorize it, one might say it’s an espionage thriller. But really, that covers merely the basics of what the film is all about…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/28/2022
Alfred 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 war-threatened Europe. No sooner has he landed than he becomes embroiled in the affairs of the mysterious "Peace Party" leader "Van Meer" (Albert Bassermann) who may (or m…
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