Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent1940

Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Laurent Bouzereau
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 120 minutes

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… more »



Captain of Mohican:
Mr. Haverstock, I want a talk with you.

Johnny Jones (Huntley Haverstock):
Yes sir?

Captain of Mohican:
I just found out you're a newspaperman.

Johnny Jones:
I guess that's right.

Captain of Mohican:
Oh, it is, eh? Why didn't you tell me that when I questioned you? You lied to me, sir!

Johnny Jones:
My dear captain, when you've been shot down in a British plane by a German destroyer, 300 miles off the coast of England (latitude 45), and have been hanging on to a half-submerged wing for hours, waiting to drown, with half a dozen other stricken human beings, you're liable to forget you're a newspaperman for a moment or two!

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