FREE JOURNEY INTO FEAR PDF Eric Ambler,Norman Stone | 224 pages | 01 Jul 2009 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141190303 | English | London, United Kingdom Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler AllMovie relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Action Comedy Drama Comedy. Horror Thriller Drama. Science Fiction Romance Adventure. Western Mystery All Genres. Comedy on the Edge Eyepoppers Fantastic Reality. Tough Guys Trashy All Moods. Kidnapping Prostitutes Sexual Awakening. Witches Zombies All Themes. Features Reviews Lists. Watch Online News All Posts. Facebook Twitter RSS. Flags Suitable for Children. Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star Journey into Fear RKO's Journey Into Fearbut prior commitments compelled him to vacate the director's chair in favor of Norman Foster. Joseph Cottenwho starred as an American gunnery engineer up to his armpits in international intrigue, adapted the screenplay from the Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler. Targeted for extermination by the Gestapo, Cotten secretly books passage on a steamer bound from Turkey to Batumi. His fellow passengers include dancer Dolores Del Rio and her gigolo partner Jack Durant ; talkative Frenchwoman Agnes Moorehead and her browbeaten husband Frank Readick ; German archaeologist Journey into Fear Wyatt ; and a secretive, obese, thick-spectacled Journey into Fear, played by Orson Welles ' business partner Jack Moss. From the outset, it is no secret that Moss is a Nazi assassin. The question: who are his contacts, and how long will it be before Cotten is forced into a showdown? The very complex storyline was made even more Journey into Fear by RKO's decision to pare the film down to 69 minutes; several resultant plot gaps had to be bridged by an ongoing offscreen narration, presented in the form of a letter written by Cotten to his worried wife Ruth Warrick. As one can see, virtually the entire roster of Welles ' Mercury Theatre troupe is involved in Journey into Fear. Director Norman Foster so slavishly imitates the patented Wellesian visual style Journey into Fear Welles ' pre-production "storyboards" dictating choice of camera angle, lighting etc. Remade for Canadian TV in Mind Games. Related Movies. Journey into Fear ( film) - Wikipedia Journey into Journey into Fear is a American spy film directed by Norman Fosterbased on the Eric Ambler novel of the same name. The Mercury Production was also produced by Journey into Fear, again uncredited. Inan alternate cut was shown at a Welles film retrospective at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. It was the original Journey into Fear release print, lacking the narration and ending of the US version but including about six minutes of footage deleted by RKO Pictures. In an opening scene before the credits, an assassin, Banat, is seen preparing a gun while a gramophone skips as it plays. The story that follows is the narrative of a letter from Howard Graham, an American armaments engineer, to his wife Stephanie. While journeying to the Soviet port of Batumi to return to the United States to complete his business with the Turkish NavyGraham and his wife stop in Istanbul and are met by Journey into Fear, a Turkish employee of Graham's company, who under the pretense of discussing business, takes Graham to a nightclub to introduce him to dancer Josette Maretl and her partner Gogo. Banat tries Journey into Fear to kill Graham during a magic act, shooting the magician instead. Graham is brought to the headquarters of the Turkish secret police for questioning, where Colonel Haki blames the assassination attempt on German agents seeking to delay the re-arming of Turkish ships. The colonel shows Graham a photograph of Banat, who he says was hired by a Nazi agent named Muller. Haki then orders Graham to travel secretly to Batumi aboard a tramp steamer, while Haki personally oversees the safe overland transit of Stephanie. Graham's fellow passengers include Josette and Gogo; Kuvetli, an ingratiating Turkish tobacco salesman; Professor Haller, an apolitical German archeologist; and the henpecked Matthews and his French wife. Josette sees that Graham is frightened, and not knowing that he is married, tries to become close to him. At an interim port call, Graham is made aware of the arrival of a new passenger by the annoying clamor of a gramophone, while Haller warns him that Kuvetli is Journey into Fear who he claims to be. At dinner Graham recognizes Banat and tries to persuade the ship's captain and purser to put him ashore, but they believe that he is crazy. Graham Journey into Fear to Josette for help and she has Gogo engage Banat in a poker game while Graham unsuccessfully searches Banat's cabin for the assassin's gun. When Graham returns to his own cabin, he is met by an armed Haller and deduces that he is actually Muller. Muller offers to spare Graham's life by delaying his return to the States for six weeks by having him taken to a hospital with a case of " typhus. Kuvetli was eavesdropping from the next cabin, however, and informs Graham that Muller's "plan" is just a scheme to get Graham away from the ship before murdering him. Kuvetli instructs Graham to pretend to agree to the plan but before the ship docks in Batumi to hide himself in an empty cabin while the Turkish agent arranges for the arrest of the German agents. When Graham goes to the empty cabin, he finds Kuvetli dead on Journey into Fear floor, murdered by Banat. Graham asks Mathews to deliver a message to the Turkish consul in Batumi to notify Haki. Matthews gives the unarmed Graham a pocket knife. Graham runs into Gogo, who bluntly offers to "give up" Josette for Graham to marry for a cash consideration. Muller and Banat coerce Graham into a waiting car. When the car has a flat tire, Graham jams Matthews' pocket knife into the horn, and in the ensuing commotion, jumps into Journey into Fear driver's seat, crashes the car into a shop window and escapes. That night, as a storm rages, Graham joins his wife at their hotel, but Muller arrives there first, impersonating a coworker from Graham's company. Banat intimidates Graham from leaving and Muller persuades Stephanie to join Haki Journey into Fear while he "talks business" with Graham. He leaves Graham to be killed by Banat, but Gogo enters the room to promote his deal for Josette and Banat shoots at him. Graham flees out of the room's window Journey into Fear the cornice of the building in the torrential rain, pursued by Banat and Muller. Trapped between them, he is saved when Haki appears and shoots Muller. Banat wounds Haki but blinded by the rain, misses Graham. The two struggle and Banat falls to his death. Back in the present, Haki tells Graham as he finishes the letter that Stephanie is waiting for him but wonders why the engineer took decisive action when he had been so indecisive before. Spent too Journey into Fear time running away. Eventually Joseph Cotten was assigned the lead on the basis of his performance in Citizen Kane. In July it was announced that Orson Welles would play a lead role and direct the film. Welles disregarded Hecht's script and wrote a new one with Joseph Cotten. He also brought in Jack Moss from Paramount Journey into Fear producer. Welles's involvement saw the addition to the cast of other people from his stock company, such as Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead and Everett Sloane. Welles's work on Ambersons would mean that ultimately Journey into Fear was unable to direct the movie. Journey into Fear was in production January 6 — March 12, Peter Bogdanovich later asked Welles if he had Journey into Fear to do with directing the scene Journey into Fear the building ledge. Welles did produce and design the picture, and wrote the script with Joseph Cotten. Welles's main contribution as producer was the opening sequence in which the assassin listens to an old gramophone record while loading his gun. Welles said that at the time he thought he was the first to come up with a scene before the titles begin. Modern filmographies acknowledge Welles's contributions as director, producer and screenwriter. During the film's post production Welles was fired by RKO and his Mercury unit told to leave the studio. The film was edited without Welles's involvement. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. RKO Pictures. Release date. Running time. August 9, Retrieved August 9, American Film Institute. Retrieved February 24, Los Angeles Times. The New York Times. April 8, April 16, July 12, August 14, July 23, July 29, January 25, This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins. Orson Welles at Work. London: Phaidon. University of California. Associated Press. Archived from the original on May 12, Orson Welles. This is Orson Welles Les Bravades Films directed by Norman Foster. Moto Thank You, Mr. Moto Mr. Moto Takes a Chance Mysterious Mr. Hidden categories: Commons category link from Wikidata. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. 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