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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Name: Foreign Correspondent
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: drama film, film noir, war film
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 7.4

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Rudolph Maté · Cut by Dorothy Spencer · Music by Alfred Newman · 115 min

How it was made

The mid-ocean plane crash was built by rear-projecting footage of a diving stunt aircraft onto rice paper mounted in front of the cockpit set, with water-filled chutes behind it timed to burst through the paper at the moment of impact.
After the film's original wrap, Hitchcock travelled to England, returned convinced London bombing was imminent, and had Ben Hecht write a new radio-station epilogue shot on 5 July 1940, replacing a planned seaplane ending.
Producer Walter Wanger spent five years and numerous drafts turning Vincent Sheean's memoir into a usable script before Hitchcock came aboard.
Hitchcock's own marriage proposal to his wife Alma was reused, almost verbatim, as the dialogue for the film's proposal scene.

Behind the scenes

Hitchcock During Wartime - Mark Harris on Foreign Correspondent — CRITERION · 4 min

Elsewhere

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

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