Watch Ministry of Fear (1944) Free Online

Release Date: 1944

Cast: Marjorie Reynolds, Dan Duryea, Erskine Sanford, Percy Waram, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Ray Milland, Alan Napier

Categories: Movies, Psychological Thriller, Spy, Film Noir

Ministry of Fear is a 1944 film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Based on a novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring in London during the Blitz, pursued by foreign agents and incriminated for murder; all as a result of having visited a village fair and winning a cake after being given its weight by a fortune teller. The original music for the film was composed by Miklós Rózsa and Victor Young. In wartime England during the Blitz, Stephen Neale (Milland) is released from Lembridge... MORE

Ministry of Fear is a 1944 film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Based on a novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring in London during the Blitz, pursued by foreign agents and incriminated for murder; all as a result of having visited a village fair and winning a cake after being given its weight by a fortune teller. The original music for the film was composed by Miklós Rózsa and Victor Young. In wartime England during the Blitz, Stephen Neale (Milland) is released from Lembridge Asylum. While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity. He guesses the weight of a cake for a shilling, and is urged to go to the palm reader's tent to have his fortune told by Mrs. Bellane (Dyne), an older woman. He asks her to ignore the past and tell the future, which startles her. She cryptically tells him to take another guess at the weight of the cake at 4 pounds, 15 1/2 ounces. Neale does so and wins the prize. Then a young blond man hurries to the fête to see Mrs. Bellane. Afterward, people try to persuade Neale to give the cake to LESS