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1944 Certificate PG
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Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane on the outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to. Read more

Starring Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke
Director Fritz Lang
Genres Drama

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Ministry Of Fear

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane on the outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to.

Starring Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford
Director Fritz Lang
Studio OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 26 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 03 Sep 2007
Production year: 1944
Format DVD

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  • Forget the phony studio settings and the script's hesitancies in adapting Graham Greene's novel about a spy hunt in... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • It's packed with the filmmaker's prototypically arresting shadows and nocturnal atmosphere

    • USA Today
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Film noir masterclass

    A simplified but still gripping reworking of one of Graham Greene's Entertainments, in which Ray Milland's Stephen Neale emerges from an asylum into a Blitz soaked in espionage and mystery.

    Fritz Lang delivers a masterclass in film noir atmospherics, with some unsettling sequences (the village fete where a cake kickstarts events, a train journey with a blind man and a seance all particularly stand out) and a hint of old school German Expressionism.

    Given the subject matter it would've been interesting to see a Hitchcock take here, but this is every bit as good, despite the occasional whiff of studio editing somewhere down the line.

      • Squizz from Lancaster
      • Posted 16 May 2007 12:30

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Ministry of Fear

    Ray Milland doing what he does best. Very atmospheric and a real 'noir'.

      • A customer from Stranraer
      • Posted 04 Mar 2009 09:42

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