Journey Into FearIt begins as a Kafkaesque fable, with a US munitions expert visiting wartime Turkey getting separated from his wife and overcoat, dodging a bullet and being forced by the local police on to a boat to Bhutan for his own protection. It develops into the tightest of thrillers, in which the tension never subsides for a moment. And there is a memorable, rain-soaked payoff. Foster takes the director's credit, but Welles's fingerprints are all over this, and his Colonel Haki is a reference point for his future flawed heroes. Almost too casually, it is a classic.
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