Foreign Correspondent (1940)

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Synopsis

Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies. (© IMDB)

Production

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Pre-Production

Casting

In November 1939, the Los Angeles Times reported that Ingrid Bergman, who had recently signed to David O. Selznick, would be taking a lead role in the film.

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Technical Information

• black & white
• sound mix: mono (Western Electric Sound System)
• aspect ratio: 1.37:1 Spherical
• running time: 120 minutes
• production studio: Walter Wanger Productions, Inc
• also known as:
  • Personal History - working title

Releases

Blu-ray

Foreign Correspondent (1940) - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, USA, 2014)81585 ▶ Amazon (UK)

DVD

	Correspondant 17 (1940) - Studio Canal (France, 2008) R2 PAL 1.33:1
	Correspondant 17 (1940) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - part of a box set PAL 1.33:1 [01:43:32]

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Image Gallery

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Film Frames

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Themes

• birds - a bird nearly gives away the hero hiding in the windmill
• the MacGuffin - Clause 27
• tramps - the tramp in the windmill
• the Hitchcock cameo - walking past the hotel reading a newspaper (more details)
  

Cast and Crew

Directed by:

• Alfred Hitchcock

Starring:

• Joel McCrea - John Jones
• George Sanders - Scott ffolliott
• Laraine Day - Carol Fisher
• Herbert Marshall - Stephen Fisher
• Albert Bassermann - Van Meer
• Robert Benchley - Stebbins
• Edmund Gwenn - Rowley
• Eduardo Ciannelli - Mr Krug
• Harry Davenport - Mr Powers
• Martin Kosleck - Tramp
• Frances Carson - Mrs Sprague
• Ian Wolfe - Stiles
• Charles Wagenheim - Assassin
• Eddie Conrad - Latvian
• Charles Halton - Bradley
• Barbara Pepper - Dorine
• Emory Parnell - "Mohican" Captain
• Roy Gordon - Mr Brood
• Gertrude Hoffman - Mrs Benson
• Marten Lamont - Captain
• Barry Bernard - Steward

Produced by:

• Walter Wanger

Written by:

• Robert Benchley
• Charles Bennett
• Joan Harrison
• Ben Hecht

Photographed by:

• Rudolph Maté

Edited by:

• Dorothy Spencer

Music by:

• Alfred Newman

Costume Design by:

• I Magnin