“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…”
Hoping to give his faltering career a shot in the arm, crime reporter John Johns (Joel McCrea) is re-assigned to London as a foreign correspondent. And when he stumbles upon a spy ring, he feels ill-equipped to unravel the truth alone and turns to a politician's beautiful daughter (Laraine Day) and an urbane English journalist (George Sanders) for help. Although set in London, Foreign Correspondent was Hitchcock's second American film and is a winning combination of international intrigue, comic relief, and some of the legendary director's most memorable set pieces.
