Ministry of Fear (1944)

MINISTRY OF FEAR  (1944)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Fritz Lang
    Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond,
    Dan Duryea, Alan Napier, Hillary Brooke
Ray Milland walks out of an asylum where he's spent two years for allegedly killing his wife. He buys a train ticket to London, and to kill time while he's waiting, wanders around a fund-raising fair where he wins a cake by correctly guessing its weight. He gets on the train, cake in hand, but it turns out this is no ordinary cake, and there are Nazis everywhere, and hardly anybody a newly released mental patient can confide in. A lot of this plays like a Hitchcock movie, and it's from a book by Graham Greene, which is close enough, with plenty of doubt and suspicion to go around for everybody. Can you trust the kindly bookstore owner, or the nice young tailor taking your measurements for a new suit, or the blind man sharing your compartment on the train? Not in this movie.