Ministry of Fear
Thrilling drama of the Invisible Network of Terror!
Genres
Overview
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
86 min
Release Date
1944-05-19
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
179
Vote Average
6.874
Ray Milland
Stephen Neale
Marjorie Reynolds
Carla Hilfe
Carl Esmond
Willi Hilfe
Hillary Brooke
Mrs. Bellane #2, spiritualist
Percy Waram
Inspector Prentice
Dan Duryea
Cost aka Travers the tailor
Alan Napier
Dr. Forrester
Erskine Sanford
George Rennit, private investigator
Harry Allen
Tailor's Delivery Man (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
Vangie Beilby
Old Lady at Charity Bazaar (uncredited)
Evelyn Beresford
Fat Lady at Charity Bazaar (uncredited)
Aminta Dyne
Mrs. Bellane #1 - fortune teller (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Mr. Newby (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
Connie Leon
lady Purchaser of Cake (uncredited)
Ottola Nesmith
Woman at Admission Gate (uncredited)
Cyril Delevanti
Railroad Agent (uncredited)
6.5
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7.1
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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5.6
A Bullet for Joey
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1955-04-15 | en
5.3
The Woman on Pier 13
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
1950-06-15 | en
6.6
The Killer Is Loose
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
1956-02-03 | en
6.8
The Reckless Moment
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
1949-12-09 | en
6.7
Green for Danger
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
1946-12-07 | en
6.5
Tomorrow Is Another Day
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
1951-08-08 | en
6.5
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
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1947-02-20 | en
6.5
Stranger on the Third Floor
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
1940-08-16 | en
6.0
The Mark of the Whistler
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
1944-10-09 | en
0.0
Startime: The Turn of the Screw
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
1959-10-20 | en
5.6
Project X
A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.
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8.3
Le Trou
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
1960-03-18 | fr
5.8
Trapped
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
1949-09-27 | en
5.8
Murder Is My Beat
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
1955-02-27 | en
6.5
The Black Cat
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
1941-05-02 | en
6.4
Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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6.7
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
1948-08-20 | en
6.3
The Racket
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1951-10-25 | en