Foreign Correspondent

A crime reporter is sent to Europe and, along with his love interest and fellow reporter, uncovers a German agents plot to extract information from a kidnapped Dutch diplomat, narrowly avoiding assassination and capture before returning to England as a successful war correspondent. Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American English-language Action Romance motion picture featuring Joel Mccrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley and Mary Young. Walter Wanger Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Walter Wanger. Foreign Correspondent is written by James Hilton and Robert Benchley and it is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the film. Foreign Correspondent was released on 16th August 1940 and takes a screen time of 120 minutes. Foreign Correspondent was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison. Cinematography was done by Rudolph Mat and A.S.C. and editing by Dorothy Spencer. The music was composed by Alfred Newman.