Based on a novel by Graham Greene and direction by Fritz Lang, no-one could say 'Ministry of Fear' doesn't have a top class pedigree. But the story is not one of Greene's strongest, a shaggy dog tale of a suave hero, glamourous femme fatales and Nazi spies that at its best foreshadows 'The Parallex View', but is also pretty ropey in places. Liekwise, there are also places where the film shows its age: the concluding fight scenes are very weak and static by modern standards. But the pacing is refreshingly brisk, and there's enough going on that I'm surprising it's never been re-made, if not in the pure contemporary style then at least as a neo-noir homage.
Review of Ministry of Fear
