Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

For inexplicable reasons, Foreign Correspondent never achieved the fame of The 39 Steps or North by Northwest, but it is certainly good enough to join the ranks of these better-known Hitchcock thrillers. Set just before the beginning of World War II, the film focuses on murder, international intrigue, and an innocent Joel McCrea caught between spies and counterspies. Highlights include an assassination on a rainy day with the killer escaping into a sea of umbrellas, a group of spies who signal their Dutch contacts by turning windmills against the wind, and an extraordinary climax aboard a plane that crashes into the ocean. In McCrea's final speech, you can hear the British filmmaker uniting American patriotism with the anti-Nazi cause. --Raphael Shargel

Production: Warner Home Video
  Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NR (Not Rated)
Year:
1940
120
1,378 Views
The thrill spectacle of the year!
MYSTERY IN WHISPERS that cracks like THUNDER!

Carol Fisher:
Well, you've made quite a day of it, haven't you?

John Jones:
Now, listen...

Carol Fisher:
Making fools of Scott Ffolliott and me in front of the local police, broken into my bedroom and disgraced me before a very important friend of my father's. What are your plans now, may I ask?

John Jones:
I'll tell you if you wait just a...

Carol Fisher:
You might at least have had your clothes on.

John Jones:
Take it easy. This is serious. I've got to talk to you.

Carol Fisher:
I've seen your serious business. What're you doing here?

John Jones:
I'm escaping.

Carol Fisher:
Escaping from what?

John Jones:
From a couple of fellas in my room about to kill me.

Carol Fisher:
May I ask who?

John Jones:
Two gentlemen disguised as policemen, waiting to take me for a ride.

Carol Fisher:
You're talking through your hat.

John Jones:
But I'm not talking through my hat. I've thrown a monkey wrench into some international dirty business, whatever it is. I know Van Meer's alive. That's the reason they want to kill me.

Carol Fisher:
I can think of others.

John Jones:
Now look, you've got to help me. Not for my sake alone, but this is the biggest story in Europe.

Carol Fisher:
Look! Your childish mind is as out of place in Europe as you are in my bedroom.

John Jones:
Get over there. You see what you're doing?

Carol Fisher:
All this is going straight back to London and will be common gossip by tomorrow. I don't care for myself, but my father's engaged in a great work. He's trying to help avert a war, a dreadful war, and this is just the sort of thing to discredit him. I know you care nothing about our work. All you're interested in is having fun with windmills and hotel bathrooms.

John Jones:
You don't believe I'm in trouble?

Carol Fisher:
You'll be in lot of trouble if you don't get out. Now for the last time, please go.

John Jones:
Okay. But I want you to know exactly what's going to happen when I do go. I'll go back to my room and get dressed. I'll try and shake those two fellows off, but I won't succeed. They'll stick to me like a couple of tattoo marks until they get me. They'll stop at nothing. I seem to know too much. And you're right. I don't know the ins and outs of your crackpot peace movement. And I don't know what's wrong with Europe. But I do know a story when I see one. And I'll keep after it until either I get it or it gets me. Sorry you have those derogatory opinions of me...but I guess that can't be helped. So long. It's been nice knowing you.


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