Caftan Woman Posted by on September 17, 2020

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...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on November 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

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on July 12, 2014

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 director wa   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on December 27, 2013

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...   read more