Foreign Correspondent (1940) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
John Jones is a New York crime reporter sent to Europe under the name Huntley Haverstock to cover the growing war crisis. He investigates Van Meer's apparent assassination, survives kidnapping attempt...
Stephen Fisher is Carol Fisher's father and the polished leader of the Universal Peace Party. Secretly directing the espionage operation, he helps imprison and torture Van Meer, attempts to conceal hi...
Scott ffolliott is a reporter who works with John Jones and Carol Fisher to uncover the conspiracy surrounding Van Meer. He joins the pursuit after the shooting, traces the kidnappers to the hotel, en...
Van Meer is a Dutch diplomat whose knowledge of a secret treaty clause makes him the target of an international spy ring. After an impersonator is shot in his place, he is kidnapped, drugged, and tort...
The Assassin disguises a gun near a camera while appearing to photograph Van Meer outside the peace conference. He shoots a Van Meer impersonator, flees from John Jones, and leads the pursuit toward t...
Rowley is presented to John Jones as a bodyguard after Stephen Fisher warns that Jones is in danger. He takes Jones to the top of Westminster Cathedral under the pretense of offering protection and sh...
Mr. Powers is the editor of the New York Morning Globe who sends John Jones to Europe under the name Huntley Haverstock to report on the political crisis. He later receives the reporters' secretly tra...
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After the aircraft crash, Jones and the other reporters ask to use the ship's communications to file their story.
Fisher offers Jones a bodyguard, and Rowley then takes Jones to Westminster Cathedral tower and attempts to push him over the edge.
Scott joins Jones and Carol in secretly transmitting the aircraft disaster story by radio-telephone to Mr. Powers.
Jones shares a cab with Van Meer, questions him about the impending war, and is assigned to cover his public appearances.
Mr. Powers, editor of the New York Morning Globe, sends crime reporter John Jones to Europe under the name Huntley Haverstock.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
The captain's neutrality policy prevents Scott, alongside Jones and the other reporters, from filing the story through the ship.
The assassin conceals a gun near a camera and shoots the man publicly presented as Van Meer.
At the top of Westminster Cathedral tower, Rowley suddenly tries to shove Jones off, but Rowley falls to his own death.
Fisher and his operative realize Jones knows too much, and Fisher allows a bodyguard to take Jones to the cathedral tower where he is attacked.
Fisher's spy ring holds Van Meer prisoner, tortures him with lights and loud jazz, and demands the secret details of Clause 27.
After the gunman shoots Van Meer's double, Scott joins Jones and the pursuit toward the windmill.
Ffolliott suspects Fisher is a traitor, follows him to the prison hotel, and fights his thugs during Van Meer's torture.
Jones and ffolliott pursue the assassin, investigate Fisher, and work together to locate and rescue Van Meer.
Jones runs after the shooter and searches the windmill where he suspects the assassin is hiding.
Ffolliott fights Fisher's thugs to interrupt Van Meer's torture and escapes before Jones and another reporter complete the rescue.
A reporter uncovers a wartime kidnapping conspiracy and turns personal danger into a public act of journalism.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Foreign Correspondent (1940) · 7/10 · action, mystery, thriller
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