JOURNEY INTO FEAR

Journey into fear is an American spy film from 1943 by Norman Foster based on the book of the same name (German translation from 1975: Fear Travels with You) by Eric Ambler. Parts of the film were shot by Orson Welles, who also produced it.

At a meeting between the American weapons specialist Howard Graham and his business partner Kopeikin in an Istanbul nightclub, the former assists a performing magician. During a trick, a shot is fired and the magician is dead. The investigator Haki suspects that the attack was actually aimed at Graham and sends him to a ship that is aiming for Batumi. Already on the ship Graham meets the German Dr. Haller and Banat, who is one of the suspects in the attack. When they arrive in Batumi, they both force him into a car, but Graham manages to escape. He wants to go to a hotel where he has arranged to meet his wife. Once there, he meets his opponents again, who turn out to be Nazi agents. During an argument in which Haki is also involved, Banat dies.