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- Ministry of Fear may lack the subtlety and intelligence of something like The Third Man; its thrills are strictly popcorn fare for escapist times. Still, it counts as solidly done drama with several notable performances (especially Hillary Brooke and the never-disappointing Dan Duryea), and Lang's direction is excellent.
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Ministry of Fear is a Fritz Lang spy thriller, not really film noir and too exotic to match the suspence of some of Lang's earlier classics; it's more Hitchcock-lite in its inventive twists,...
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An astonishing combination of clumsy, false adaptation, unsure direction, and mis-casting, has changed Greene's Ministry of Fear into an ordinary spy film, with a few expensive and Hitchcock...
Ministry of Fear (1944) *** (out of 4) Tense thriller adapted from the Graham Greene novel about Stephen Neale (Ray Milland), a man released from an asylum after serving two years. On his way to London he visits a small village where a festival is going on and he's given a tip to win a cake.
Recent reviews. Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
- (11.1K)
- Paramount
- Fritz Lang
Ministry of Fear: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke. Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.
- (9K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fritz Lang
- 1945-01-04
Mar 4, 2013 · Blu-ray edition reviewed by Chris Galloway. March 04 2013. BUY AT: See more details, packaging, or compare. Synopsis. Suffused with dread and paranoia, this Fritz Lang adaptation of a novel by Graham Greene is a plunge into the eerie shadows of a world turned upside down by war.
En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
