"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 Adlerangriff phase of the Battle of Britain, and a week before Germany actually began bombing London on August 24.