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Journey Into Fear

1943

Norman Foster, Orson Welles

Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane ...

6.1

918

Film noir. Thriller A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to his wife, he flees the hotel the couple is staying in and boards a ship, only to find, after the ship sails, that the agents have followed him there.

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"RKO cut it almost as badly as 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (...) and what survives is basically a lot of claustrophobic atmosphere and some fair-to-middling suspense"	NEU
United States	Variety	"Picture attempts to catch attention through series of dramatic peaks, but misses that mark by a considerable margin, being too stagey and talky."	NEG
United States	Peter Bogdanovich IndieWire	"This often amusing foreign intrigue melodrama has some striking Wellesian ideas and images, but not nearly enough (...) [The actors] are quite good without their leader, but certainly in no way inspired"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"The narrative shortcomings suggest studio interference, but are more than made up for by the atmospheric camera angles (...) and the gallery of disreputable characters (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Theodore Strauss The New York Times	"An uneven but generally imaginative and exciting tale of terror (...) Despite its lapses, 'Journey Into Fear' is still a terse invitation to heart failure by fright"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"Eminently watchable, but it does tail away."	NEU

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