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American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Theatrical
Aug 16, 1940
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 7, 2004
Theaters
4
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, Richard Maibaum
Producer
Walter Wanger
Music
Alfred Newman
Studio
Walter Wanger Productions
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Taglines
MYSTERY IN WHISPERS that cracks like THUNDER!
The Year’s Most Thrilling Spectacle
Taglines
The thrill spectacle of the year!
War Correspondent's Unfiltered Perspective on Conflict
English Announcer
This is London. We have as a guest tonight one of the soldiers of the press. One of the little army of historians who are writing history from beside the cannons mouth. Foreign correspondent of the New York Globe - Huntley Haverstock.
[on the radio]
John Jones
Hello, America. I've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. A part of the world as nice as Vermont, and Ohio, and Virginia, and California, and Illinois lies ripped up and bleeding like a steer in a slaughterhouse, and I've seen things that make the history of the savages read like Pollyanna legends. I've seen women...
[siren sounds; bombs begin exploding]
English Announcer
It's a raid; we shall have to postpone the broadcast.
Jones
Oh, postpone, nothing! Let's go on as long as we can.
English Announcer
Madam, we have a shelter downstairs.
Jones
How about it, Carol?
Carol Fisher
They're listening in America, Johnny.
John Jones
Okay, we'll tell em, then. I can't read the rest of the speech I had, because the lights have gone out, so I'll just have to talk off the cuff. All that noise you hear isn't static - it's death, coming to London. Yes, they're coming here now. You can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes. Don't tune me out, hang on a while - this is a big story, and you're part of it. It's too late to do anything here now except stand in the dark and let them come... as if the lights were all out everywhere, except in America. Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they're the only lights left in the world!
A Conversation Between a Captain and a Reporter
Captain John Mark
Mr. Haverstock, I want a talk with you.
John Jones
Yes sir?
Captain John Mark
I just found out you're a newspaperman.
John Jones
I guess that's right.
Captain John Mark
Oh, it is, eh? Why didn't you tell me that when I questioned you? You lied to me, sir!
John Jones
My dear captain, when you've been shot down in a British plane by a German destroyer, 300 miles off the coast of England, latitude 45, and have been hanging on to a half-submerged wing for hours, waiting to drown, with half a dozen other stricken human beings, you're liable to forget you're a newspaperman for a moment or two!
Cast
Full credits →J
Joel McCrea
John Jones
L
Laraine Day
Carol Fisher
H
Herbert Marshall
Stephen Fisher
G
George Sanders
Scott ffolliott
A
Albert Bassermann
Van Meer
R
Robert Benchley
Stebbins
E
Edmund Gwenn
Rowley
E
Eduardo Ciannelli
Mr. Krug
H
Harry Davenport
Mr. Powers
M
Martin Kosleck
Tramp
F
Frances Carson
Mrs. Sprague
I
Ian Wolfe
Stiles
C
Charles Wagenheim
Assassin
E
Eddie Conrad
Latvian
C
Charles Halton
Bradley
B
Barbara Pepper
Dorine
E
Emory Parnell
'Mohican' Captain
R
Roy Gordon
Mr. Brood
G
Gertrude Hoffmann
Mrs. Benson
M
Marten Lamont
Captain
