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One of [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's]] higher-budget productions, ''Foreign Correspondent'' (1940) is the story of American reporter Johnny Jones (Creator/JoelMcCrea), 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 -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow#World_War_II Edward Murrow's broadcasts during the Blitz]].
One of [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's]] higher-budget productions, ''Foreign Correspondent'' (1940) is the story of American reporter Johnny Jones (Creator/JoelMcCrea), 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 -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow#World_War_II Edward Murrow's broadcasts during the Blitz]].
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One of [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's]] higher-budget productions, the 1940 thriller ''Foreign Correspondent''
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: The movie has an earwormy theme tune. It's so pervasive, even Creator/JoelMcCrea whistles it while drawing a bath.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: The movie has an earwormy theme tune. It's so pervasive, even Creator/JoelMcCrea whistles it while drawing a bath.
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%% * StiffUpperLip: Scott ffoliot, as with most characters played by Creator/GeorgeSanders, is a perfect example.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: The movie has an earwormy theme tune. It's so pervasive, even Creator/JoelMcCrea whistles it while drawing a bath.
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Co-starring Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, and Creator/GeorgeSanders, the film lost the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture to another Hitchcock film from the same year, ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''.
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Co-starring Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Creator/HerbertMarshall, and Creator/GeorgeSanders, the film lost the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture to another Hitchcock film from the same year, ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''.
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Fisher]], the urbane, well-mannered Nazi spy, and Rowley, the cheerful Cockney assassin.
* AlliterativeName / AwesomeMcCoolname: 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".
* AlliterativeName / AwesomeMcCoolname: 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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* AffablyEvil: AffablyEvil:
** [[spoiler: Fisher]], the urbane, well-mannered Nazispy, and spy
** Rowley, the cheerful Cockney assassin.
*AlliterativeName / AlliterativeName: '''H'''untley '''H'''averstock
* AwesomeMcCoolname: 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".
** [[spoiler: Fisher]], the urbane, well-mannered Nazi
** Rowley, the cheerful Cockney assassin.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: 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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* CoolOldGuy: Ambassador Van Meer, who stands up to his captors with an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* DashinglyDapperDerby: Johnny keeps acquiring (and losing) these as a RunningGag.
* DeadpanSnarker: Johnny Jones and Scott ffoliot.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Rowley, who takes a plunge off a cathedral tower.
* DrivingADesk: Multiple examples.
* EvilBrit: Rowley and [[spoiler: his employer Fisher]]. Averted with Scott.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Fisher]] is very fond of [[spoiler:his daughter]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Johnny Jones and Scott ffoliot.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Rowley, who takes a plunge off a cathedral tower.
* DrivingADesk: Multiple examples.
* EvilBrit: Rowley and [[spoiler: his employer Fisher]]. Averted with Scott.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Fisher]] is very fond of [[spoiler:his daughter]].
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%% * DashinglyDapperDerby: Johnny keeps acquiring (and losing) these as a RunningGag.
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Johnny Jones and Scott ffoliot.
* DisneyVillainDeath:Rowley, Rowley who takes a plunge off a cathedral tower.
tower and falls to his death.
%% * DrivingADesk: Multiple examples.
%% * EvilBrit: Rowley and [[spoiler: his employerFisher]]. Averted with Scott.
Fisher]].
%% * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Fisher]] is very fond of [[spoiler:his daughter]].
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Johnny Jones and Scott ffoliot.
* DisneyVillainDeath:
%% * DrivingADesk: Multiple examples.
%% * EvilBrit: Rowley and [[spoiler: his employer
%% * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Fisher]] is very fond of [[spoiler:his daughter]].
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* ForeignCorrespondent: Duh. Though the editor specifically doesn't want one of these.
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* IntrepidReporter: Johnny Jones.
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* KidnappedByAnAlly: ffolliot claims to have done this to extract information from Fisher.
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* MacGuffin: The secret clause in the treaty.
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* ThePrecariousLedge: Johnny navigates one of these to escape the bad guys in his hotel room.
* RetiredBadass: Rowley, the Cockney assassin.
* RetiredBadass: Rowley, the Cockney assassin.
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%% * RetiredBadass: Rowley, the Cockney assassin.
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* StiffUpperLip: Scott ffoliot, as with most characters played by Creator/GeorgeSanders, is a perfect example.
* TitleDrop: It's Johnny's job, after all.
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* TitleDrop: It's Johnny's job, after all.
* WindmillScenery: 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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* SleepDeprivationPunishment: 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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%% * TitleDrop: It's Johnny's job, after all.
* WindmillScenery: 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 upthere.there.
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%% * TitleDrop: It's Johnny's job, after all.
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* MobstacleCourse: 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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* MyNaymeIs: 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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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Scott "ffoliot".
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One of [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's]] higher-budget productions, ''Foreign Correspondent'' (1940) is the story of American reporter Johnny Jones, 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 -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow#World_War_II Edward Murrow's broadcasts during the Blitz]].
Starred Creator/JoelMcCrea, and Laraine Day, and Creator/GeorgeSanders. Lost the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture to another Hitchcock film from the same year, ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''.
Starred Creator/JoelMcCrea, and Laraine Day, and Creator/GeorgeSanders. Lost the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture to another Hitchcock film from the same year, ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''.
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One of [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's]] higher-budget productions, ''Foreign Correspondent'' (1940) is the story of American reporter Johnny Jones, Jones (Creator/JoelMcCrea), 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 -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow#World_War_II Edward Murrow's broadcasts during the Blitz]].
Starred Creator/JoelMcCrea, and Co-starring Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, and Creator/GeorgeSanders. Lost Creator/GeorgeSanders, the film lost the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture to another Hitchcock film from the same year, ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''.
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* TitleDrop: It's Johnny's job, after all.
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* TitleDrop: It's Johnny's job, after all.all.
* WindmillScenery: 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.
* WindmillScenery: 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.
