Journey Into Fear

Pros: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Story, Cinematography
Cons: Recut by studio

Journey Into Fear (1943) I was going through a box of my old VHS tapes and happened onto Journey Into Fear a fairly decent film noir starring Joseph Cotten and featuring a cameo performance from Orson Welles. Although Orson disclaimed any ...

Pros: Noirish look, range of characters
Cons: Too rushed

The documentary on the making of "The Third Man" includes footage of Orson Welles saying that he did not direct any of it (the documentary also shows that most of it was filmed before Welles arrived in Vienna and that he refused to venture far into the ...

Pros: The pre-credit sequence, Joseph Cotten, Jack Moss, Karl Struss' cinematography. Eric Ambler's source material.
Cons: We might say, "as usual, for Welles' pictures, the 20 minutes cut from it."

A balcony, a moving camera, the stuck needle of a battered Victrola playing the same phrase of an old song ("Chagrin d' Amour"), over and over again. In the room, a fleshy man, the sweating assassin Peter Banat (Jack Moss) prepares to go out -- combing ...