Journey into Fear (1943 film)

Journey into Fear is a 1943 film about an American ballistics expert in Turkey who finds himself targeted by Nazi agents and when a passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
 * Directed by Norman Foster. Written by Orson Welles, based on the novel by Eric Ambler.

Welles and Del Rio together! as Terror Man vs. Leopard Woman--for possession of a mysterious stranger in the powder-keg Middle East...a man with a military secret worth more than his love and his life!...It's menace melodrama thrilled with mighty mystery and suspense...SEE IT! (taglines)

Josette Martel

 * Nonsense to say that Americans are not polite. They are so clever in business and yet so generous and sincere.

Colonel Haki

 * Ah, you have this advantage over the soldier, Mr. Graham. You can run away without being a coward.


 * Mr. Graham, there are men who are natural killers. Banat is one of them.


 * We know a week ago Mueller got in touch with Banat. Tonight we learn Banat is here. It was he who shot at you at the cabaret, a waiter identified him, I am dumbfounded. But then I am dumbfounded every 25 minutes.

Gogo Martel

 * War is stupid. It is all very bad for business.


 * People are not compelled by law to play cards with me. Why do they squeal like stuck pigs when they lose?


 * She is very pretty, no? But she has no sense. She is a woman and women do not understand business.

Matthews

 * War is the last refuge of the capitalist.


 * It is the women I think who should fight these wars. They're more ferocious as patriots than the men.

Dialogue

 * Prof. Haller: [Standing at the ship's railing, looking into the distance] Won't you join me, Mr. Graham? I'm just getting some fresh air.
 * Howard Graham: Oh...
 * Prof. Haller: To see the land from a ship, or to see a ship from the land, I used to like both, but now I dislike both. When a man reaches my age, he grows, I think, to resent subconsciously the movement of everything except the respiratory muscles which keep him alive. Movement is change. And to an old man, change means death.


 * Kopeikin: [Seeing Graham off at dockside] Oh, by the way, have you a gun in your luggage?
 * Howard Graham: I haven't any luggage!
 * Kopeikin: Then, uh, you better take this. I picked it up on the way to see your wife. It is completely loaded. [Pulls out a loaded revolver and hands it to Graham]
 * Howard Graham: Well, I don't need this!
 * Kopeikin: Put it in your pocket. It will make you feel nicer to have it.
 * Howard Graham: I never fired one of these things, you know?
 * Kopeikin: [laughs] That's a good one, Howard... You're a ballistics expert, and you never fired a gun!
 * Howard Graham: Well, I just never did.
 * Kopeikin: It's very simple. You just point it and pull the trigger.
 * Howard Graham: Oh, I know how it works.
 * Kopeikin: Take it with you anyway.


 * Howard Graham: Oh, I don't know. That's quite a decision!
 * Colonel Haki: Graham, I'm not asking you to decide anything, I'm telling you what you must do.


 * Prof. Haller: He interests me, this Kuvetli. He has a way of talking without saying anything.
 * Howard Graham: Maybe it's got something to do with his being a salesman.


 * Matthews: Has your wife got a bad temper, Mr. Graham?
 * Howard Graham: No, very good.
 * Matthews: You're lucky. For years I lived in misery. Then one day I made a great discovery. There was a socialist meeting and I went to it. I wasn't a socialist, understand, I went to this meeting because I was curious. The speaker was good. Then a week later we went out with some friends, and I repeated what I heard. My wife laughed in a very peculiar way, and when I got home, I made a discovery. I found out my wife was a snob, and even more stupid than I dreamed. She said that I humiliated her by saying such things as if I believed them. And all her friends were respectable people, and I mustn't speak as if I was a working man. She wept! Then I knew that I was free. Mr. Graham, I bought books and pamphlets to make my arguments more damaging. My wife became very docile. She even cooked things I liked, just so I wouldn't disgrace her.
 * Howard Graham: I see. So, you don't believe these things you say?
 * Matthews: No. That's where my little joke comes in. Mr. Graham, for awhile I was free, then a terrible thing happened. I found I began to believe these things that I said. These books I read showed me that I'd found a truth. I, a capitalist by instinct, became a socialist by conviction. Worse than that, there was a strike at the factory, and I, the manager, supported the strikers! I didn't belong to a union, naturally, and so I was dismissed. It was ridiculous! So here I am. I've become a man in my home at the price of becoming a bore outside.


 * Colonel Haki: You can cable her when you stop at Trabzon. "C'est la guerre."
 * Howard Graham: What?
 * Colonel Haki: War is war.

Taglines

 * Welles and Del Rio together! as Terror Man vs. Leopard Woman—for possession of a mysterious stranger in the powder-keg Middle East...a man with a military secret worth more than his love and his life!...It's menace melodrama thrilled with mighty mystery and suspense...SEE IT!

Cast

 * Joseph Cotten — Howard Graham
 * Dolores del Río — Josette Martel
 * Ruth Warrick — Stephanie Graham
 * Agnes Moorehead — Mrs. Mathews
 * Jack Durant — Gogo Martel
 * Everett Sloane — Kopeikin
 * Eustace Wyatt — Professor Haller/Muller
 * Frank Readick — Matthews
 * Edgar Barrier — Kuvetli
 * Jack Moss — Banat
 * Stefan Schnabel — Purser
 * Hans Conreid — Oo Lang Sang, the magician
 * Robert Meltzer — Steward
 * Richard Bennett — Ship's Captain
 * Orson Welles — Colonel Haki