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starring: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrickdirected by: Norman Foster
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301327701
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301327705
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: August 08, 1987
Running Time: 68 minutes
Sales Rank: 23972
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Not the greatest of journeys
Dark atmosphere and claustrophobic effects dominate this Orson Welles adaptation of the Eric Ambler novel about munitions smuggling in Turkey. It's spy vs. spy as a band of Nazi sympathizers attempts to bump off American dealer Joseph Cotten. The acting, mostly by Welles's Mercury Theatre gang, is very good, especially Cotten. The action, however, generally fails to build; even the chase scenes - one on the ledge of a hotel building in a driving rainstorm - seem uncharacteristically bland for Welles. ... Read More
Rating:  - A venture into the known.........
In strict technical terms I suppose Journey Into Fear qualifies as film noir. For my likings though it's a stretch. The genius of Welles aside, the movie while providing much of the Noir technique lacks a bit of the heart and soul that defines it. Not that Journey has to be Noir, but the movie is dished up as such. A wet dark street in Nowhere USA with an embittered protagonist, well, I guess I can't get enough of that. To each they're own--I got tired of the boat and the weak protagonist Cotton early ... Read More
Rating:  - Fun wartime film noir
Joseph Cotton plays an American munitions salesman who runs afoul of Axis agents seeking to delay his company's hard-won deal with the Turkish government... He's one of those bumbling mystery movie schnooks who keeps digging themselves in deeper and deeper, causing viewers to repeatedly smack their foreheads in disbelief... Orson Welles plays a blustering Turkish general who takes the American under his wing, perhaps protecting him, perhaps sending him to his doom. Placed on a cramped ocean liner, Cotton ... Read More
Rating: - A Clever Addendum To Orson Welles' Career
Although credited to Norman Foster, and co-written by Joseph Cotton, Welles infact "supervised" (i.e. controlled) most of this production. What we get is a tight and very compact (barely over an hour in length) thriller.
Joseph Cotton plays an Engineer who someone is trying to assasinate. Trapped on a steamship crosing the black sea, he avoids attempts on his life (several of them by Welle's real life business manager, Jack Moss).
Think of "Journey..." as a practice run for "Touch Of ... Read More
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