Journey Into Fear (RKO-Radio) is Orson Welles's first cinema journey into the field of mystery melodrama. Welles shows himself a careful student of Alfred Hitchcock, but he falls far short of the Old Master. Journey Into Fear also falls short of the best Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amber sons).
The film follows the eerie adventures of a young U.S. engineer (Joseph Gotten) when he is stalked by a group of Nazi trigger men in Turkey. The Nazis want to eliminate Gotten, who is a technical adviser to the Turkish Navy. To get him out of harm's way Turkey's secret...
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