What It's About:

Crime reporter Johnny Jones (McCrea) is renamed Huntley Haverstock by his editor and sent to Europe as a foreign correspondent. On the brink of war and teeming with espionage, the continent is full of juicy stories - and Johnny/Huntley soon finds one. Covering a peace mission, he witnesses an assassination, and is soon on to a nefarious spy ring and wide-ranging plot to aid the war-mongering Fascists. Can this Yank in treacherous waters uncover the whole mystery, and survive long enough to post the biggest scoop of his career?

Why I Love It:

Unsung Hitchcock thriller is outstanding, his first to deal directly with the new war in Europe. Bolstered by a first-rate script (both James Hilton and Robert Benchley contributed much of the dialogue) and superb cast (with the suave yet treacherous Herbert Marshall particularly memorable) , "Correspondent" is consistently engrossing and entertaining, with some indelible set-pieces only this director could conjure up. Look for pivotal scenes involving umbrellas and windmills. Go, Johnny, go!