FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrae, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall,
George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley,
Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Cianelli, Harry Davenport
A newspaper publisher dispatches a crime reporter to London to cover events in Europe in the lead-up to World War Two. It gets complicated from there, with an assassination, a kidnapping and a secret line of text in a peace agreement (the movie's MacGuffin). Plus, Herbert Marshall in a role that has some parallels to Claude Rains in "Notorious", Edmund Gwenn (Santa Claus himself) as a hit man, and George Sanders. No matter what movie he's in, or what it's about, you can never really trust George Sanders. Or can you?
