What is Journey Into Fear/The Bribe about?

Backlot Exotica! Double Feature: JOURNEY INTO FEAR, 1943, RKO [Warner Bros.], 68 min. Dirs. Orson Welles and Norman Foster. Orson Welles reunited his Mercury Theatre colleagues for this shadowy and stylish adaptation of Eric Ambler’s tale of wartime intrigue. Joseph Cotten - who wrote the screenplay - plays an engineer pursued by a murderous Nazi agent, for reasons unknown, throughout the Near East. A uniquely Wellesian exercise in cinematic style, dripping with atmosphere. NOT ON DVD! THE BRIBE, 1949, MGM [Warner Bros.], 98 min. Less a coherent drama than a sweaty fever-dream of ’40s film noir, THE BRIBE features an all-star cast (Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak) trapped on the steamy Caribbean isle of “Carlota,” perspiring through a convoluted tale of romance, disease and WWII contraband.

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What is Journey Into Fear/The Bribe about?: Backlot Exotica! Double Feature: JOURNEY INTO FEAR, 1943, RKO [Warner Bros.], 68 min. Dirs. Orson Welles and Norman Foster. Orson Welles reunited his Mercury Theatre colleagues for this shadowy and stylish adaptation of Eric Ambler’s tale of wartime intrigue. Joseph Cotten - who wrote the screenplay - plays an engineer pursued by a murderous Nazi agent, for reasons unknown, throughout the Near East. A uniquely Wellesian exercise in cinematic style, dripping with atmosphere. NOT ON DVD!

THE BRIBE, 1949, MGM [Warner Bros.], 98 min. Less a coherent drama than a sweaty fever-dream of ’40s film noir, THE BRIBE features an all-star cast (Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak) trapped on the steamy Caribbean isle of “Carlota,” perspiring through a convoluted tale of romance, disease and WWII contraband.