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Foreign Correspondent

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Foreign Correspondent	label	Foreign Correspondent
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Foreign Correspondent	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })One of Alfred Hitchcock's higher-budget productions, Foreign Correspondent (1940) is the story of American reporter Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), who is sent to investigate the rumblings of war in Europe. Along the way, he uncovers a conspiracy, falls in love and possibly discovers the story of the century. The final scene resembles — but actually predates — Edward Murrow's broadcasts during the Blitz.Co-starring Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, and George Sanders, the film lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to another Hitchcock film from the same year, Rebecca.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Foreign Correspondent / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: It's an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Here he is passing by on the street as Johnny leaves for the peace conference.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
Foreign Correspondent / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The movie has an earwormy theme tune. It's so pervasive, even Joel McCrea whistles it while drawing a bath.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Foreign Correspondent / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: The film opens with Johnny's editor receiving a telegram from one of his correspondents, dated Aug. 19, 1939, reporting "absolutely no chance of war on account of late crops."
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Foreign Correspondent / int_420dd6e6	type	Sleep Deprivation Punishment
Foreign Correspondent / int_420dd6e6	comment	Sleep Deprivation Punishment: The conspirators torture Ambassador Van Meers for information, using bright lights and loud jazz music to keep him awake for days on end.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Foreign Correspondent / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Done to Van Meer, with a Nothing Is Scarier approach. Whatever it is, ffoliot is sickened and a female conspirator can't bear to watch, and he starts talking within seconds.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Foreign Correspondent / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: The Latvian delegate, who doesn't speak a word of English and has a permanent goofy smile, but gets a knowing look when he catches Johnny in Carol's room.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Foreign Correspondent / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After Johnny and Carol rather matter-of-factly declare their love for one another, Johnny says "That cuts our love scene down quite a bit, doesn't it?".
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Foreign Correspondent / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Foreign Correspondent / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Fisher, the urbane, well-mannered Nazi spy Rowley, the cheerful Cockney assassin.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Foreign Correspondent / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Rowley who takes a plunge off a cathedral tower and falls to his death.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_5d1eca88	type	Awesome McCoolname
Foreign Correspondent / int_5d1eca88	comment	Awesome Mc Coolname: Johnny Jones has a "fresh, unused mind", but his publisher wants him to be taken seriously so Jones is given the posher-sounding name, "Huntley Haverstock".
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Foreign Correspondent / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Foreign Correspondent / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Fisher allows himself to drown in order to save his daughter, Johnny, and Scott. But mostly his daughter.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_80ebdcb2	type	Mobstacle Course
Foreign Correspondent / int_80ebdcb2	comment	Mobstacle Course: In one of the film's more memorable set pieces, Van Meer's assassin has to push his way through a crowded Amsterdam square to escape. As it is raining, we can see where he is going from the motion of the crowd's umbrellas.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Foreign Correspondent / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Scott ffoliot, as with most characters played by George Sanders, is a perfect example.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Foreign Correspondent / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: Scott "ffolliot". Yes, two lower-case Fs. This is a rare affectation among certain upper-class British families, other examples including ffrench and fforbes. The most plausible explanation is that for a period in early modern written English, there was no proper upper-case F, and so the lower-case f was written twice in situations such as names where it had to be clear that the capital was intended. Some people then kept the ff even after distinct upper and lower-case versions of F existed, either out of tradition or out of legal paranoia that if their name wasn't exactly as written in old legal documents they might somehow lose property or privileges.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Foreign Correspondent / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Johnny's plane has come under fire from a German warship. A lady passenger expresses incredulous outrage, saying "I shall see the British consul as soon as I—", before she is killed by an anti-aircraft round.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Foreign Correspondent / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: For its first half hour, the film seems to be a light romantic comedy. Then the assassination sends it straight into Hitchcock's usual territory.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Foreign Correspondent / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: At the end of the film, in reality Hitchcock's plea for the Americans to help fight Nazi Germany.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_b754128a	type	Windmill Scenery
Foreign Correspondent / int_b754128a	comment	Windmill Scenery: Johnny pursues the assassin out of the city, into an area just covered in windmills. He goes to investigate the one windmill turning against the wind, and finds the assassin's accomplices holed up there.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Foreign Correspondent / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: The assassination of the Van Meer impostor, and Johnny's chase, take place in a driving rainstorm.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Foreign Correspondent / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Huntley Haverstock
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Foreign Correspondent / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Foreign Correspondent / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Fisher again.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
Foreign Correspondent / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: The ending with Haverstock delivering a propaganda broadcast as bombs fall on London was written (by Ben Hecht) and shot after the rest of the film was completed. It replaced a more sardonic ending in which Ffolliott tells Haverstock how the enemies will likely cover up the incidents depicted in the main part of the film.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_e933b1f7	type	Follow That Car
Foreign Correspondent / int_e933b1f7	comment	Follow That Car: Johnny dives into a cab to pursue the assassin.
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Foreign Correspondent / int_ea6fdefb	type	Casual Danger Dialog
Foreign Correspondent / int_ea6fdefb	comment	Casual Danger Dialog: Many examples between Johnny and Scott, such as when they are discussing the ridiculous spelling of Scott's ridiculous last name while in a high-speed chase with an assassin.
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Films By Alfred Hitchcock	seeAlso	Foreign Correspondent
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