Foreign Correspondent

Hitchcock cameo in the beginning of the movie he goes to a coat and hat, reading the newspaper, when John Jones left the hotel before the meeting with van Meer.

Albert Bassermann, who played the Dutch diplomat van Meer, did not know a word of English and just memorized their lines.

The scene when the plane crashes into the sea, and the water floods the cabin with sitting in her pilots had been withdrawn without any installation. To do this, Hitchcock used the rear screen of paper, which housed the water tank.

Shooting was completed on may 29, 1940, after which Hitchcock went to England to visit his mother. He returned July 3 with the news that the Germans are ready to start bombing at any time. Was urgently called Ben Hecht, who finished the final scene in the London radio station. The scene was captured on 5 July, but the real bombing started on July 10.

The film's producer Walter Wanger was a pilot in world war I and believed that a propaganda film can have a big impact on society. He spent 10 thousand dollars to acquire the rights to the memoirs of Vincent Siana (Vincent Sheean) "Story of my life" (Personal History), published in 1935, and tried to write a script about the world revolution since the First World war through the eyes of a foreign correspondent. By 1939, he never finished the script, having spent 60 thousand dollars. When on 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, Wanger hired two writers — John Ley (John Lay) and John Mahana (John Meehan) to write the screenplay based on the memoirs Chiana, but it was about a new world crisis. Wenger agreed with producer Selznick (who Hitchcock April 10, 1939 signed a contract, then moved from England to the United States, where he staged "Rebecca") to Hitchcock filmed the anti-Nazi film. In the result, Hitchcock took the Thriller, but the script is completely different from the books Chiana.