On Fritz Lang in the 1940s
March 14, 2013
Suffused with dread and paranoia, this Fritz Lang adaptation of a novel by Graham Greene is a plunge into the eerie shadows of a world turned upside down by war. En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections. Lang was among the most illustrious of the European émigré filmmakers working in Hollywood during World War II, and Ministry of Fear is one of his finest American productions, an unpredictable thriller with style to spare.
| Stephen Neale | Ray Milland |
| Carla Hilfe | Marjorie Reynolds |
| Willi Hilfe | Carl Esmond |
| Mrs. Bellane No. 2 | Hillary Brooke |
| Inspector Prentice | Percy Waram |
| Cost/Travers, the Tailor | Dan Duryea |
| Dr. J. M. Forrester | Alan Napier |
| George Rennit | Erskine Sanford |
| Mrs. Bellane No. 1 | Aminta Dyne |
| Martha Penteel | Mary Field |
| Director | Fritz Lang |
| Associate producer | Seton I. Miller |
| Screenplay | Seton I. Miller |
| Based on the novel by | Graham Greene |
| Music score | Victor Young |
| Art director | Hans Dreier and Hal Pereira |
| Costumes | Edith Head |
| Edited by | Archie Marshek |
| Makeup artist | Wally Westmore |
| Sound recording | W. C. Smith and Don Johnson |
| Set decoration | Bertram Granger |
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