Foreign Correspondent
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. From TMDB
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60 of 91 · most liked first#BOTD 1871 Gertrude W. Hoffmann: began her film career in Germany in 1918, but didn't start her Hollywood career until past 60 years old, making her film debut in 1933. Worked steadily over the next 20 years, though many of her parts were uncredited. Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941).
neutral · AI labelView post →Give me a stand-alone Star Trek movie starring Jake Sisko set 30 years after the events of DS9. The story would basically be a remake of the Hitchcock movie Foreign Correspondent, but in space.
neutral · AI labelView post →upcoming in-house film fest here: Born Yesterday The Birds Night Moves Foreign Correspondent Escape from New York Crossing Delancey F For Fake Snowpiercer Cool Hand Luke Night of the Hunter Sullivan's Travels The Beguiled
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940), a film I assumed I'd seen before but hadn't. Recommendable for its topical and witty script, remarkable set pieces, great cast of British, American and German character actors, and stunning cinematography by Rudolf Maté.
positive · AI labelView post →He wasn't the 1st actor to do that. German actor Albert Bassermann did the same thing in 1940 for the anti-fascist film, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. And Bassermann was also nominated for an Oscar, but unfortunately he didn't win.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alfred Hitchcock (with scenes from his film "Foreign Correspondent") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Alfred Hitchcock (with scenes from his film "Foreign Correspondent") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →#OTD in 1980 we sadly lost our cinema master Alfred Hitchcock, who spent 60 years showing us our dark side. We know his classics; which Hitch films seem underrated? I vote for his sly international thriller Foreign Correspondent and his Kafkaesque doppelgänger film The Wrong Man, both brilliant.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alfred Newman (with scenes from "The Hurricane", "Wuthering Heights", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Foreign Correspondent" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night with Joan Didion! L’AVVENTURA RED RIVER CASABLANCA CITIZEN KANE THE BIG KNIFE THE PHILADELPHIA STORY THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT A STAR IS BORN CHARADE But definitely not—absolutely not—THE VICTORS (from Didion’s very brief stint as Vogue film critic, 1963)
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to this trio of episodes has been such a joy for this former teenage Hitchcock film nerd: a perfect excuse to rewatch some of the gems (Notorious! Lifeboat! Spellbound!) and watch a few others for the first time (Foreign Correspondent! Under Capricorn! The embarrassingly bad Jamaica Inn!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering highly underappreciated British actor of stage, film & radio Herbert Marshall on his 136th birthday, famous for roles in BLONDE VENUS, TROUBLE IN PARADISE, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, THE LETTER, THE LITTLE FOXES, THE RAZOR'S EDGE, ANGEL FACE, MIDNIGHT LACE, and much more.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (18th August) in 1981, the Scala Cinema was showing Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Suspicion (1941) as a Hitchcock double bill.
neutral · AI labelView post →#BOTD 1915 Barbara Pepper: American stage, television, radio, and film actress. Best remembered as the original Doris Ziffel in the sitcom Green Acres (1965-68). Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940), Manpower (1941) and The Crooked Way (1949).
neutral · AI labelView post →a little mini-tradition i've started with myself is making the first movie i watch each year a hitchcock one. i was tempted to rewatch Foreign Correspondent but instead i'm knocking an early silent one off the list nw:
neutral · AI labelView post →Foreign Correspondent [1940] is a Train Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →#BOTD 1907 Phyllis Esther Kohnstamm, known as Phyllis Konstam: English film Actress. Appeared in 12 films between 1928 and 1964, including four directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Blackmail, The Skin Game, Murder! and The Foreign Correspondent)
neutral · AI labelView post →Alfred Hitchcock (with scenes from his film "Foreign Correspondent") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT is a can’t-miss, edge-of-your-seat ride. Screening in our series HITCH! The Original Cinema Influencer: May 23 at 9:45 PM May 27 at 4:10 PM May 29 at 7:00 PM + intro by film critic @jhoffman.bsky.social www.paristheaternyc.com/film/foreign...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940). Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day. Revisiting often undervalued Hitch on my 2025 rewatch. He came to Hollywood in 1940 & received 2 Best Picture Oscar noms that year for this & REBECCA. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 696
positive · AI labelView post →As we check out Alfred Hitchcock’s films, I was astounded when I watched Foreign Correspondent last night. WHEW! For a film released in 1940, it is an adventure film full of real special effects that would put recent movies to shame. I put it in my top 5 Hitchcock films.
positive · AI labelView post →I don’t know if it’s the best Hitchcock film, but it’s absolutely the *most* Hitchcock film. So many of his movies—39 Steps, Foreign Correspondent, Saboteur, Man Who Knew (both versions) are leading up to this.
neutral · AI labelView post →Foreign Correspondent, released in 1940. The film tapped the trademark genre elements by which he had made a name for himself in his home country. Foreign Correspondent, meanwhile, all but predicted where the director would head in the coming decades.
neutral · AI labelView post →As we check out Alfred Hitchcock’s films, I was astounded when I watched Foreign Correspondent last night. WHEW! For a film released in 1940, it is an adventure film full of real special effects that would put recent movies to shame. I put it in my top 5 Hitchcock films.
positive · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 1940 (66/122) Now Watching 📽️ #7/7 Foreign Correspondent dir. Alfred Hitchcock rec'd by @streetsajed.bsky.social, @cadenmgardner.bsky.social, @stevequick.bsky.social, @jessewalsh.bsky.social, @24fpsuk.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →tonight's dinner movie is Foreign Correspondent (an especially wacky Hitchcock) and Robert Benchley just showed up
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's movie (Monday, 9-14-26) is Foreign Correspondent 1940
neutral · AI labelView post →Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock, 1940, Film) Hitchcock made essentially the same movie with different beats three different times and the first time he did it (The 39 Steps) is still the best.
negative · AI labelView post →Sampling some older films in my #LastFourWatched, and Foreign Correspondent impresses with classic movie magic #filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →13 August 1899 – 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, 80, English-US filmmaker. Foreign Correspondent (1940) * Mr & Mrs Smith/Suspicion (1941) * Saboteur (1942) * Shadow of a Doubt (1943) * Lifeboat (1944) * Spellbound (1945) * Notorious (1946) * The Paradine Case (1947) First Independent film: Rope (1948) 5/7
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of Foreign Correspondent on @letterboxd: boxd.it/61CPkJ #265moviereview Filmsky 📽️
unlabelledView post →I love a lot of the "second string" Hitchcocks like "Foreign Correspondent" & "Stage Fright" & "Family Plot" more than "Vertigo" (I get that it's an important movie but I'd much rather watch one of the fun ones!)
unlabelledView post →Foreign Correspondent, released in 1940. The film tapped the trademark genre elements by which he had made a name for himself in his home country. Foreign Correspondent, meanwhile, all but predicted where the director would head in the coming decades.
unlabelledView post →Share your favorite black and white movie Foreign Correspondent (1940)
unlabelledView post →“Hello, America, hang onto your lights. They are the only lights left in the world” The last line of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film, “Foreign Correspondent” That’s when we were still the good guys.
unlabelledView post →This film came one year after REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT and the same year as SUSPICION ?! *gasps for breath*
unlabelledView post →Ha, that’s what I thought! (I’m in Canada too.) I ended up watching Foreign Correspondent, which I keep on my DVR, but when that was over TCM was partway through the second film. Before I turned it off, I saw Jimmy Stewart and thought “what is this even?”, but I didn’t bother investigating further 😅
unlabelledView post →latest ABC Foreign Correspondent on China is very good. I watched it twice. #abctvAustralia #foreigncorrespondent
unlabelledView post →#JuneMovieChallenge 6/5 An assassination attempt in a movie Foreign Correspondent (1940) An assassin posing as a photographer shoots a Dutch diplomat on the steps outside a peace conference, then escapes in a sea of umbrellas. #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky 📽️
unlabelledView post →Loved him in so many films, The anti-racist “The Oklahoman” and the anti-Nazi Hitchcock film “Foreign Correspondent” (greatest special effects to date depicting an ocean plane crash) and the noir horror with Fay Wray “The Most Dangerous Game” and the superb Tourneur’s Stars in my Crown and Wichita.
unlabelledView post →Why am I thinking of Hitchcock’s 1940 film: “FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.”
unlabelledView post →A Good Thing: I watched Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent for the first time this past weekend and by golly is that a firecracker of a film. Pretty much perfect in my estimation. And maybe it’s the Joel McCrea factor, but it felt like how Preston Sturges would have made a thriller. Just phenomenal.
unlabelledView post →While FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT ('40) is Hitchcock's second American film, it sends him back to England…in spirit if not in fact. The film earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, BUT lost out to another Hitchcock film, his first American feature REBECCA ('40).
unlabelledView post →Very heartened by the love for Lifeboat. It may be Hitch's most underrated film. Same applies to Foreign Correspondent to a slightly lesser extent.
unlabelledView post →Tomorrow would be the 106th birthday of movie/tv/radio/stage star and author Laraine Day (1920 -2007). Best known for FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT; JOURNEY FOR MARGARET; MR. LUCKY and the DR. KILDARE series. Also called the "First Lady of Baseball" from marriage to Dodger HOF player/manager Leo Durocher.
unlabelledView post →I feel this way about Hitchcock (serves me right for liking the work of a sex predator). I can't stand "Vertigo" (the one that was once named the greatest film of all time) & disliked "Psycho" but love the "Foreign Correspondent"s & "Stage Fright"s & "The Trouble with Harry"s.
unlabelledView post →109. Labyrinth 108. the Gold Rush 107. Foreign Correspondent 106. The Avengers (MCU) 105. Insomnia 104. Ray 103. The Muppet Movie 102. Sinners 101. Sunset Boulevard 100. All Quiet on the Western Front (original)
unlabelledView post →🎬 The Top 4 Thriller Movies Released on August 16! What's your fave? 1. The Flu 2. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral 3. Foreign Correspondent 4. Soldier of Orange 32 #Thriller movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/aug-16#thriller #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Thanks for posting this. It inspired me to watch Foreign Correspondent - which I’ve never seen! HELL of a movie. So many great intense moments.
unlabelledView post →Favorite film for each year of the 1940s: '40: Foreign Correspondent '41: The Little Foxes '42: Casablanca '43: Meshes of the Afternoon 44: Laura '45: Mildred Pierce '46: Notorious '47: Black Narcissus '48: Rope '49: Adam’s Rib 📽️
unlabelledView post →I just watched the ABC Foreign Correspondent episode Geisha of Tokyo and it was great. #ForeignCorrespondent #ABCIview #ABC #Geisha #JapaneseCulture #Japan https://iview.abc.net.au/show/foreign-correspondent/series/2026/video/NC2604H014S00
unlabelledView post →The Buchan novel sparked Hitchcock’s best UK film but he didn’t use much of it at all. In fact the most memorable sequence he adapted for the screen from it - the great windmill sequence - he used for a different movie, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT…
unlabelledView post →#64 - Foreign Correspondent (1940) ★★★★ Review: letterboxd.com/vinceunderwo...
unlabelledView post →Good time to rewatch movies like Foreign Correspondent: www.justwatch.com/us/movie/for...
unlabelledView post →📽️ FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT #AlfredHitchcock (1940) ★★★★ With rigor and great directorial talent, this story of a somewhat idiotic journalist, a bit of an anti-hero, is captivating, except a few naiveties in the script. Acting inherited from the silent era. Tense editing in extreme scenic spaces. #movie
unlabelledView post →Today's Movie: Foreign Correspondent 1940 / Spy Thriller / USA D: Alfred Hitchcock W: James Hilton, Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison Film Collection
unlabelledView post →You haven't mentioned the film with Hitchcock's greatest practical effect, Foreign Correspondent. youtu.be/HfebgvBWUtQ?...
unlabelledView post →Is the building in Foreign Correspondent meant to be home to a newspaper? If so, I wonder if the building in the movie was inspired by the Paramount Building, but the building in the Fleischer cartoon was inspired by the movie?
unlabelledView post →I don't expect to see FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940) on Netflix, but it is screening on May 23, 27 and 29 as part of their Hitchcock series at the Paris Theater in NYC. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/foreign...
unlabelledView post →On the weekend the Toronto Film Society had a double-bill of two lesser-known Hitchcock's, BLACKMAIL (1929), his last silent / first sound film, and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, a 1940 thriller with more than a dollop of WWII propaganda.
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