Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW001010 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1940 |
Original Title |
Foreign Correspondent |
Other Title(s) |
Mord / Der Auslandskorrespondent (German) |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Walter Wanger Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA; for United Artists Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Walter Wanger; Production manager: James Dent; Assistent director: Edmont Bernoudy, Marty Moss; Script: Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison; Dialogues: James Hilton, Robert Benchley; Script, var: Ben Hecht (Additions to Screenplay), Richard Maibaum (Additions to Screenplay); Camera: Rudolph Maté; Cameraman: Burnett Guffey; Assistent cameraman: Tom Dowling, James King; Special optical effects: Paul Eagler (Camera), Lee Zavitz (Camera), Paul Wtuliska; Rear projection: Ray O. Binger; Camera, var: Roy Overbaugh (Additional Cameraman), Osmond Borradaile (Cameraman in Europe); Still photograpy: William Walling, Jr.; Editing: Dorothy Spencer; Sound editing: Walter Reynolds; Editing supervision: Otho Lovering; Editing, var: Louis R. Loeffler (Spezialeffekte); Sound: Frank Maher; Sound, var: Thomas T. Moulton (Spezialeffekte); Art direction: Alexander Golitzen, Richard Irvine (Mitarbeit); Art direction, var: William Cameron Menzies (Special Production Effects), Oscar Brodin (Construction); Set decoration: Julie Heron; Makeup: Norman Pringle; Haidressing: Carmen Dirigo; Music: Alfred Newman; Musical direction: Alfred Newman; Press: Bob Burkhardt; Participation: Paul Mantz (Pilot); 2nd unit, camera: Paul Eagler; 2nd unit, var: Ellis Carter (Kameraführung), Frank Bucholtz (Kameraassistenz), Norman Freed (Kameraassistenz); Double: Ted Mapes (für Joel McCrea) |
Cast |
Joel McCrea (Johnny Jones/Huntley Haverstock); Laraine Day (Carol Fisher); Herbert Marshall (Stephen Fisher); Albert Bassermann (Van Meer); George Sanders (Scott Ffolliott); Robert Benchley (Stebbins); Edmund Gwenn (Rowley); Eduardo Ciannelli (Mr. Krug); Martin Kosleck (Tramp); Harry Davenport (Mr. Powers); Barbara Pepper (Doreen); Eddie Conrad (Latvian Diplomat); Charles Wagenheim (Assisin); Crauford Kent (Toastmaster); Frances Carson (Mrs. Sprague); Alexander Granach (Valet); Dorothy Vaughan (Jones' Mother); Samuel Adams (Impersonator); Betty Bradley (Cousin Mary); Mary Young (Auntie Maude); Jack Rice (Donald); Jackie McGee (Child); Henry Blair (Child); Rebecca Bohannen (Sophie); Marten Lamont (als: Matrin Lamont) (Clipper Captain); Barry Bernard (Stewart); Hilda Plowright (Miss Pimm); Gertrude W. Hoffman (Mrs. Benson); Jane Novak (Miss Benson); Roy Gordon (Mr. Brood); Bert White (Passenger); Thomas Pogue (Passenger); Jack Voglin (Flight Officer); George French (Flight Officer); William Stelling (Flight Officer); John Meredith (Flight Officer); George Cathrey (Flight Officer); Leonard Mudie (Inspector McKenna); Holmes Herbert (Commissioner Ffolliot); Frederick Sewall (Student); Emory Parnell (John Martin, Captain of the Mohican); James Finlayson (Dutch Peasent); Hermina Milar (Little Dutch Girl); Loulette Sablon (Nesta); Douglas Gordon (Taxi Driver); Paul Sutton (Male Nurse); Robert C. Fischer (Manager); Jack Dawson (Schoolmaster); Ken Christy (Plainclothesman); Tom Mizer (Plainclothesman); June Heiden (Two-year-old); Terry Kilburn (Boy); Hans von Morhart (Dutch Policeman); Otto Hoffman (Telegrapher); Carl Ekberg (Dutch Policeman); Charles Halton (Bradley); Joan Leslie (als: Joan Brodel) (Jones' Sister); Paul Irving (Dr. Williamson); Ferris Taylor (Jones' Father); John T. Murrey (Clark); Harry Depp (Uncle Biren); Meeka Aldrich (Donald's Wife); William Castello (Dutch Pilot); Bill Gavier (Dutch Pilot); Ian Wolfe (Stiles the Butler); Ernie Stanton (Newsman); Donald Stuart (Newsman); Colin Kenny (Walter / Doctor); Helena Philips Evans (Maid); Herbert Evans (English Doorman); Frank Benson (Englich Porter); Barbara Boudwin (Barmaid); Louis Borell (Capt. Lansom); Gino Corrado (Italian Waiter); Elspeth Dudgeon (Spinster); Gwendolyn Logan (Spinster); Eily Malyon (Hotel Cashier); Bunny Beatty (Porter); John Burton (English Radion Announcer); Raymond Severn (English Boy); Lawrence Osman (Eton Boy); Richard Hammond (Eton Boy); Joe O'Brien (Eton Boy); Billy Bester (Eton Boy); Billy Horn (Eton Boy); Ronald Brown (Eton Boy); Louise Brien (Secretary); Jack Alfred (Copy Boy); George Offerman, Jr. (Copy Boy); E.E. Clive (Mr. Naismith); Alfred Hitchcock (Man with Newspaper); Wheaton Chambers (Committeeman); John George; William Yetter, Sr. (Bit part); Harry Semels; Horace Carpenter |
Length |
3291,2 m (13 Akte) / 120'18'' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 18 Mar 1940-05 Jun 1940: Shooting period |
Further Remarks |
- Kostüme: I. Magnin & Company |
Abstract |
Johnny Jones, alias Huntley Haverstock, is sent to Europe as foreign correspondent for the "New York Globe."It is the end of August, 1939. Johnny gets involved in strange political intrigue in a peace conference in Amsterdam. He becomes witness to the assassination of the Dutch diplomat Van Meer. On pursuing the murderer he suddenly stands face to face with the alleged dead man. A Van Meers double was shot so that the real Van Meer could be kidnapped. He is the signatory of a secret pact between England and Holland, and a group of German agents attempts to squeeze the secret clause of the contract out of him. All leads of the conspiracy point towards Stephen Fischer, chairman of the World Peace Party and whose daughter, oblivious of her father`s wheelings and dealings, has fallen in love with Johnny. Eventually he succeeds in showing Fisher`s true colours and in saving Van Meer. Fisher wants to escape to America with his daughter, but Johnny sits in the same aircraft planning to have Fisher arrested on his arrival in New York. In the meantime, war has broken out. The aircraft is shot down by a German ship and crashes into the sea. Johnny, Carol, and four other passengers find safety on a wing of the plane. Fisher sacrifices his life so that this does not sink. Carol finally finds her way back to Johnny as the reporter reports from the European war scene. |
Subject Terms |
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Holdings |
- National Library of Australia, National Film Lending Collection, Canberra; 35mm |
Materials |
- Svenska Filminstitutet, Stockholm; Dialogue sheets |
Bibliography |
- Barnes, Howard: , in: New York Herald Tribune, ??.??. 1940 |