537 Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
537 Foreign Correspondent (1940)
- 'Robert Benchley' (qv) was allowed to write his own lines.
- Director 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv) wanted 'Gary Cooper' (qv) for the lead
instead of 'Joel McCrae' (qv), but Cooper wasn't interested in doing a
thriller.
- Shooting was completed on May 29, 1940, after which Hitchcock made a
visit to England. He returned on July 3 with the word that the Germans
were expected to start bombing at any time. 'Ben Hecht' (qv) was hurriedly
called in and wrote the tacked-on final scene set at a London radio
station; it was filmed on July 5, and the real-life bombing started on
July 10.
- 'Albert Bassermann' (who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer) couldn't speak a
word of English and learned all his lines phonetically.
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): early in the movie walking past
Jonny Jones' hotel reading a newspaper.
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