Ray Milland stars as Stephen Neale, a man who thinks his long personal nightmare may be over. On the night he is released from a sanitorium, a sentence for the mercy killing of his wife, Stephen Neale faces a new and more immediate nightmare.
Graham Greene's (The Third Man) 1943 novel The Ministry read more
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 12, 2019
In screenwriting 101 they always say engaging movies employ ticking clocks from start to finish. Ministry of Fear takes this quite literally, opening with the tick-tock of a clock face as Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) sits in rapt attention, waiting for the bells to chime. At first, we’re not s read more
After the first couple of paragraphs, this post is pretty much nothing but spoilers. Ye’ve been warned. During the 30s and early 40s, Austrian-exile Fritz Lang wanted to make not just anti-fascist pictures, but anti-Nazi pictures. In the American studios where Lang began making movies in 1936, this read more
After the first couple of paragraphs, this post is pretty much nothing but spoilers. Ye’ve been warned. During the 30s and early 40s, Austrian-exile Fritz Lang wanted to make not just anti-fascist pictures, but anti-Nazi pictures. In the American studios where Lang began making movies in 1936, this read more
Ministry of Fear Directed by Fritz Lang Written by Seton I. Miller from a novel by Graham Greene 1944/USA Paramount Pictures First viewing/Netflix rental Stephen Neale: Not quite. The look and feel of the piece scream Fritz Lang but under a screenwriter who was also the producer, the read more
Ministry of Fear. What a great title! What a mediocre film. I was very excited to screen this Fritz Lang offering, since it’s one of the few from his American oeuvre that I hadn’t seen. And as much material as I poured over to find something, anything, that could cue me into the master’s sleight read more
After the first couple of paragraphs, this post is pretty much nothing but “Ministry of Fear” spoilers. Ye’ve been warned. During the 30s and early 40s, Austrian-exile Fritz Lang wanted to make not just anti-fascist pictures, but anti-Nazi pictures. In the American studios where Lang beg read more
