Editing Foreign Correspondent (film) (section)

==Reception==
''Foreign Correspondent'' opened on August 16, 1940, in the United States and on October 11 of that year in the United Kingdom. The film, which ends with London being bombed, opened in the United States at the dawn of the [[Battle of Britain]], just three days after the [[Luftwaffe]] began bombing British coastal airfields in the early ''[[Adlertag|Adlerangriff]]'' phase of the [[Battle of Britain]], and a week before Germany began [[Battle of britain#Raids on British cities|bombing London]] on August 24.<ref name="LegrandKarney1995">Legrand and Karney [https://books.google.com/books?id=zt6RyZEn5VcC 1995, p. 311.]</ref>

===Box office===
''Foreign Correspondent'' did well at the box office, but its high cost meant it incurred a loss of $369,973.<ref name="wagner" /> According to ''Kinematograph Weekly'' it was the second most popular film of 1940 in Britain (the first being ''Rebecca'').<ref>{{cite book|page=231|title=Blackout : reinventing women for wartime British cinema|last=Lant|first= Antonia|year=1991 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref> It earned £118,519 in the UK.<ref>James Chapman ‘The Billings verdict’: Kine Weekly and the British Box Office, 1936–62' Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 20 Issue 2, Page 200-238, p 208</ref>

===Critical===
It was generally praised by the critics, although some saw it as a glorified [[B movie]].<ref name="tcmart" /> It also attracted attention from at least one professional propagandist, Nazi Propaganda Minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who called ''Foreign Correspondent'' "a masterpiece of propaganda, a first-class production which no doubt will make a certain impression upon the broad masses of the people in enemy countries".<ref name="Humphries1994">Humphries [https://books.google.com/books?id=semM469g-TYC 1994, p. 66.]</ref>

On the review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Foreign Correspondent'' has an approval rating of 96% based on 45 reviews, with an average score of 8.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Alfred Hitchcock's ''Foreign Correspondent'' features a winning combination of international intrigue, comic relief, and some of the legendary director's most memorable set pieces." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a score of 89 out of 100 based on 18 critic reviews,  indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|foreign_correspondent|Foreign Correspondent}}</ref> In his 2012 review, Saptarshi Ray of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote of ''Foreign Correspondent'': "a breathless yarn with the most serious of intents that soars well beyond mediocrity but just below genius, yet remains a film that should be included on the master of suspense's top table."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ray|first1=Saptarshi|title=My favourite Hitchcock: Foreign Correspondent|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/27/favourite-hitchcock-foreign-correspondent|website=The Guardian|date=27 August 2012}}</ref>