Foreign Correspondent
1940
****
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport
In August 1939, New York Morning Globe sends their crime reporter to Europe to investigate whether a war is about to break out. He walks right in the middle of a conspiracy involving a kidnapped Dutch diplomat. Alfred Hitchcock's prescient spy drama tells a fictional story set in a time of real war, and it is amazing that it was released more than a year before the U.S. declared war on Germany. This is an entertaining film with some memorable set pieces.
