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Journey Into Fear (1943)
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12 February 1943 (USA) moreTagline:
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!Plot:
A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Good illustration/adaptation of the classic suspense novel more (30 total)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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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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It is widely believed that Orson Welles directed this film, or at least large portions of it. However, in "This Is Orson Welles", he states he only acted in it and the directing credit should go to Norman Foster. moreGoofs:
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. moreSoundtrack:
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`Journey Into Fear' certainly has an Orson Welles look. Although he received neither directing nor writing credit (credit went to Norman Foster and Joseph Cotten, respectively), I think that most of what is there is his. The problem is that there is not enough there there. The on-board relationships should have been developed more. All of them seem perfunctory.
Combining the shooting by a good marksman who misses his target and stalking him in the nightclub are combined into an altogether more satisfying single event.The escape from the Nazis is more protracted and less violent than in Eric Ambler's book. It is very noirish and photogenic, and the combination of wet chase and the presence of a murky character played by Orson Welles and an all-American one played by Joseph Cotten prefigure `The Third Man.' Joseph Cotten had some of the same American innocence and ready outrage in both films. He's an important munitions engineer here and a hack western writing there. He doesn't get the dark beauty (Alida Valli or Dolores del Rio) in either, though he has and keeps a wife in `Journey.'
The film probably makes sense to those unfamiliar with the book (and such viewers aren't distracted by thinking about what's been changed). It is suspenseful even for someone like me who recently read the book