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Journey Into Fear (1943)
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12 February 1943 (USA)
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Welles and Del Rio together! as Terror Man vs. Leopard Woman--for possession of a mysterious stranger in the powder-keg Middle East...a man with a military secret worth more than his love and his life!...It's menace melodrama thrilled with mighty mystery and suspense...SEE IT!
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A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents...
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Engaging Noir with a healthy dose of humor from Welles.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Joseph Cotten | ... | Howard Graham |
 | Dolores del Rio | ... | Josette Martel |
| Ruth Warrick | ... | Mrs. Stephanie Graham |
 | Agnes Moorehead | ... | Mrs. Mathews |
| Jack Durant | ... | Gogo Martel |
| Everett Sloane | ... | Kopeikin |
| Eustace Wyatt | ... | Prof Haller |
| Frank Readick | ... | Matthews |
| Edgar Barrier | ... | Kuvetli |
| Jack Moss | ... | Peter Banat |
 | Stefan Schnabel | ... | Translator for ships captain |
| Hans Conried | ... | Swami magician |
| Robert Meltzer | ... | Ship baggageman |
| Richard Bennett | ... | Ship's Captain |
 | Orson Welles | ... | Colonel Haki |
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68 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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In late August 1942, RKO decided to delay the release of the movie because critics panned it in press previews. By that time, Orson Welles' contract was terminated by a new studio head. As part of the settlement, Welles agreed to recut the last reel and film additional scenes. He added the voice-over by Joseph Cotten at the beginning and end of the movie, and designed the pre-credit sequence.
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Continuity: Near the end of the movie, Joseph Cotten is seen walking in the rain and entering a hotel. When he walks up to the front desk his suit looks hardly touched by the rain, however, in the next scene when he enters his wife's room his suit is drenched.
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Referenced in Suburban Girl (2007)
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C'est mon couer
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Not the noir masterpiece we've come to expect with the likes of Welles and Cotton in the cast, but still an engaging film with cleverly shot scenes, witty dialog, and suspense. Joseph Cotton plays Howard Graham; an American armaments engineer in the midst of a deal designed to supply Turkey, a U.S. ally, with weapons to fight the axis. The axis, in particular the nazi's, have other ideas and are determined to prevent Graham from reaching the shores of the U.S. to seal the deal. During a magician's act at a club in the heart of Istanbul, a hit man mistakenly kills the magician instead of graham - or was it really a mistake? Graham is immediately questioned by the head of the Turkish secret police Colonel Haki (played with joyful exuberance by Welles) and for his protection, and the interests of the Turkish military, is put on a ship deemed the "safest" route back to the U.S. Of course this is not the case and the ship is filled with a cast of menacing characters, many not what or whom they seem. JOURNEY INTO FEAR is most enjoyable for its humorous subplots that are eluded to, but never explicitly. When Graham had to suddenly disappear he left behind a wife, and Colonel Haki has taken upon himself the duty to inform her of the crisis but elects to mislead, indirectly suggesting that Graham is a womanizer, with the possible objective to seduce her in this weakened state. "What's to become of me?" She asks. "We'll think of something." Is Haki's coy reply. And so it goes.