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Ministry of Fear (1944) | User Rating
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Running Time
1 hour, 24 minutes
Country USA
Studio Paramount, Seton I. Miller
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Other Titles
• Ministry of Fear
• Ministerium der Angst (1973)
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Genre: Thriller, Film-Noir, Drama, Spy, World War II, Mental Institution, Detectives, Betrayal, Blackmail, Suspense, Murder, Investigation, Police
Plot: In Fritz Lang's haunting take on Graham Greene's novel, Ray Milland plays Stephen Neale--a bewildered man just released from an asylum. However, reality proves to be more surreal and perplexing than the asylum itself. Neale wanders through the streets, whimsically stopping off at a rural carnival, where he unwittingly gets involved in a complex and dangerous spy ring that is attempting to smuggle microfilm out of the country. He travels to London and hires a small-time detective to help him decipher the mysterious things that seem to constantly befall him. But things only get more confused from there, leading Stephen to Scotland Yard, where his fate entwines with a Nazi front organization, and a love affair.Lang paints a rich and complex picture of the double crossings and deceptions of World War II Europe with MINISTRY OF FEAR. Full of seances, back rooms, secret bookstores, and deserted hotels, the film is an atmospheric vision of the War, in which Lang uses expressionist images (a blind man emerging from the fog, beams of light piercing a dark room as gunshots are fired) to articulate the fear and suspicion of Europe in the 1940s.
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| Written by |
Graham Greene
The Third Man, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair | |
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| Cast |
Ray Milland
Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend, Love Story | | Carl Esmond
Sergeant York, The Prisoner of Zenda, Lola Montès | Hillary Brooke
The Philadelphia Story, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jane Eyre | | Dan Duryea
The Flight of the Phoenix, The Pride of the Yankees, Winchester '73 | | |
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| Music By |
| Victor Young
The Quiet Man, Shane, Around the World in Eighty Days |
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