Thriller during World War II. 1940. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) is a reporter who has to become a foreign correspondent and write about what's going on in Europe where the war is killing people everyday. Johnny calls himself Huntley Hverstock when he's writing, too keep his real name secret.
For a first assignment, 'Huntley' will meet Stephen Fisher (Herbert Marshall) who's holding a party in honour of the Dutch diplomat 'Van Meer' (Albert Bassermann). But the diplomat then has to attend at a conference, so he doesn't attend to the party held in his honour.
But at the conference, Van Meer is shot by a man disguised as a photographer. Huntley is then dragged into a storm of mystery and secrets with british agents, powerful enemies and a war tearing Europe in pieces not far away.
This film is good and really worth seeing. The scenes where Huntley and some others escapes from a sinking plane reminds me very much of Titanic. Maybe not the famous movie, but the real ship. Must have cost a lot to produce that plane-scene. This film is exiting and you should see it.
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