Foreign Correspondent - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Foreign Correspondent"
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Timing:
2:0 (120 min)
6.978/10
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7.202/10
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7.4/10
26000
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Walter Wanger
Producer
Editor
Dorothy Spencer
Editor
Art Direction
Alexander Golitzen
Art Direction
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Assistant Art Director
Richard Irvine
Assistant Art Director
Screenplay
Joan Harrison
Screenplay
Special Effects
Paul Eagler
Special Effects
Assistant Director
Edmond F. Bernoudy
Assistant Director
Additional Writing
Sound
Frank Maher
Sound
Supervising Editor
Otho Lovering
Supervising Editor
Dialogue
Interior Designer
What's left behind the scenes
- Hitchcock's cameo – at the beginning of the film, he walks in a coat and hat, reading a newspaper, as John Jones leaves the hotel before meeting Van Meer.
- Albert Bassermann, who played the role of the Dutch diplomat Van Meer, did not know a single word of English and simply memorized his lines.
- The scene where the plane crashes into the sea and water floods the cockpit with the pilots inside was filmed without any editing. For this, Hitchcock used a rear-projection screen made of paper, behind which he placed a water tank.
- Filming was completed on May 29, 1940, after which Hitchcock went to England to visit his mother. He returned on July 3 with news that the Germans were ready to start bombing at any time. Ben Hecht was urgently called in to write the final scene at the London radio station. The scene was filmed on July 5, and the actual bombing began on July 10.
- The film's producer, Walter Wanger, was a pilot in World War I and believed that a propaganda film could have a significant impact on society. He spent his own $10,000 to acquire the rights to Vincent Sheean's memoir, 'Personal History,' published in 1935, and attempted to write a screenplay about world revolutions starting with World War I through the eyes of a foreign correspondent. By 1939, he had not finished the screenplay, having spent $60,000. When Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, Wanger hired two screenwriters—John Lay and John Meehan—to write a screenplay based on Sheean's memoirs, but focusing on the new world crisis. Wanger agreed with producer Selznick (with whom Hitchcock signed a contract on April 10, 1939, after moving from England to the US, where he directed 'Rebecca') that Hitchcock would film an anti-Nazi film. As a result, Hitchcock made a thriller, but with a script completely different from Sheean's book.
- Film producer Walter Wanger was a pilot in World War I and believed that a propaganda film could have a significant impact on society. He spent his own $10,000 to acquire the rights to Vincent Sheean’s memoirs, “Personal History,” published in 1935, and attempted to write a screenplay about world revolutions starting with World War I through the eyes of a foreign correspondent. By 1939, he had not finished the screenplay, having spent $60,000. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Wanger hired two screenwriters – John Lay and John Meehan – to write a script based on Sheean’s memoirs, but dealing with a new world crisis. Wanger made an agreement with producer Selznick (with whom Hitchcock signed a contract on April 10, 1939, after which he moved from England to the USA, where he directed “Rebecca”) for Hitchcock to direct an anti-Nazi film. As a result, Hitchcock directed a thriller, but based on a script completely different from Sheean’s book.
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