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Ray Milland - Movies I've Viewed
Bookstore Owner - Movies (12 movies items)"... and Marjorie Reynolds Thomas Louden as Mr. Newland - Bookseller "
my 2020 movie diary ♥ (39 movies items)" Ministry of Fear is a WWII film noir espionage thriller featuring Ray Milland as a freshly released prisoner who gets abused by occultist Nazis and a femme fatale who performs bizarre seances. It would just be another run of the mill WWII patriotic American borefest, if not for the fact that it was directed by Fritz Lang. He had a very special German Expressionist touch in the way that he shot his films; with artful shadowy lighting and framing that gave a haunting aura to all of his movies."
Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)"Fantastical moments abound in Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear, but there’s no superhuman mechanism lurking behind them. Murders are committed for the sake of a cake; a mentalist transforms from a withered hag to a svelte femme fatale; a dusty leather satchel full of books explodes, reducing a hotel room to rubble; and perhaps best of all, Dan Duryea’s Mr. Cost dies twice, with ample time to sneeringly dial a rotary telephone with a pair of gargantuan scissors in between his deathly appointme"
