Foreign Correspondent (1940) Alfred Hitchcock (Multi Language Subtitle)

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1. Excellent movie, thank you for posting!

2. Excellent movie! A Hitchcock I never saw and will say a favorite. Thank you so much for sharing. Wow the quality in this film is fantastic. The action scenes shot in 1940 wowed me.

3. It was largely a propaganda film from Hitchcock, to show the American people they were ignoring a world war. Many people today don't know that the truth of WW2 is, that many Americans, really supported Germany in WW2, (only so many have no idea today). The American people, themselves, protested in millions, against supplying the British. Millions of them wanted to support Germany.

   My grandad told me (when I was a kid), that many of the British troops had heard (over the radio, they weren't supposed to be listening to), that the American's were protesting against the British. And they all became known as the "cowardly Yankers" (obviously meaning W****rs). Even when they eventually got here, someone would shout out and say, "here comes the cowardly Yankers". We can still watch the footage of the first Americans landings in the UK, (In the online British war archives) and you can hear some of them shouting out, calling them cowardly Yankers. And It's not hard to see why.

   The USA waited, and they waited, and they waited, for the Germans to defeat Britain. The USA even put up with 1000s of tons of their own shipping in the Atlantic gap, being sunk by German U Boats, killing thousands of American Merchant Seamen, yet still, Roosevelt refused to declare War on Germany! And let's not forget? Hitler had made his intention of global dominance, known in 1936, meaning, it was always going to be a world war.

   The USA tried to suggest it was "just another European War", but were soon forced to change their minds, as soon as, and only because, they got attacked at Pearl Harbor. Otherwise, the USA were doing nothing, this fact is largely never spoken about today. The Americans only arrived after being forced to fight, after the attack on Pearl Harbour, and to help with the final assault in Europe.

   More truth is, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the British declared war on Japan without a second thought, and they then fought Japan long before the USA did, (In the Battle of Hong Kong). But the USA, once again, bizarrely still refused to declare war on Germany? (who was Japan's ally). And that actually speaks volumes about the USA?. It really says it all, they all really believed, and really thought, the British would be crushed by Germany, and they waited, and they waited, for Germany to defeat Britain.

   Roosevelt, even refused to allow Britain the use of 50 old, half sinking, rotting, wooden, WW1 destroyers. Just left rotting away in US waters, as Roosevelt had an election coming up, (and he knew it would not be welcomed by the American people). What does that actually show us?

   We needed them to patch up, to use for the protection of our convoys, convoys that were carrying the kids, (our parents and grandparents), from the Island before the Blitz!

   Roosevelt only agreed, after the UK had agreed to give up all of her military bases across the world, and lease them all to the USA for 100 years. Some ally hey? And just look what they've done with those military bases since?

4. Wow. What a great story!

5. 12:40 Alfred Hitchcock himself, reading a newspaper

6. 29:25 'Mr Haverstock, Mr Ffolliott – with a double F'
   'I don't get the double F'
   'At the beginning. Both small Fs'
   '…one of my ancestors had his head chopped off…his wife dropped the capital letter to commemorate the occasion'
   'How do you say it? Like a stutter?'
   No, just straight "fuh" '

7. 5:23 'what europe needs is a fresh unused mind' – funny

8. great Hitchcock flick. not propaganda exactly (?) but really wanting to encourage the usa to get into the war! One of my favorite Hitchcock movies also had to do with the war – Notorious – made just as the war was ending and dealing with the continuing nazi threat in brazil… arguably Hitch's greatest film, a piece of perfection, imo.

9. Herbert Marshall of the Peace Movement represents the nazi Appeasers of the pre-WW2 period: PM Neville Chamberlain, PM Stanley Baldwin, Lord Halifax, Samuel Hoare, Lord Lothian, RAB Butler, John Simon, Nevile Henderson et al.

10. Still a gripping story after all these years!

11. I like this movie and the actors …..wonderful Hitchcock movie about spies prior to WW 2.

12. Hitchcock's documentary about the Holocaust at the end of WWII was so gut-wrenching they tried to bury it. Loved this film, Thank you.

13. IMO the true hero in this film was Scott ffolliott. Jones just happened to be there when the action took place.
    A great Hitchcock film, thanks for the upload!!

14. 54:40 Laraine Day shimmers in this scene which was based on Hitchcock's proposal to his wife.

15. 1:58:15 After the film wrapped, Alfred Hitchcock visited his native England, and learned that the Germans were expected to begin the Battle of Britain and would soon be bombing London. To accommodate this, master script doctor, Ben Hecht, was called in to pen this stirring epilogue to the film where London is being bombed. In a live radio broadcast to the United States, Joel McCrea exhorts Americans to fortify their country and "keep the lights burning" and as the lights go dark in the studio, "they're the only lights left in the world."

16. Super movie. Think of the time. Before pearl harbor

17. Whoever posted this — thank you! This is such a good movie. I’m sure it will be taken down since it’s protected content, but while it’s up here, please watch it. It’s one of the great Hitchcock thrillers and a piece of history. Cheers!!

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