Fresh
This film contains one of Hitchcock's most famous set pieces -- an assassination in the rain -- but otherwise remains a second-rate effort, as immensely enjoyable as it is.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Foreign Correspondent
The thrill spectacle of the year!
1940 · 2h · Approved
Action, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Foreign Correspondent
Overview
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.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Story is essentially the old cops-and-robbers. But it has been set in a background of international political intrigue of the largest order.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Into it Director Alfred Hitchcock, whose unmistakable stamp the picture bears, has packed about as much romantic action, melodramatic hullabaloo, comical diversion and illusion of momentous consequence as the liveliest imagination could conceive.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Hitchcock's espionage thriller is a thoroughly enjoyable affair, complete with some of his most memorable set pieces.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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