I remember in the good old days when the BBC used to have Director’s seasons and one time they showed every film directed by Orson Welles. What an eye-opener that was for a teenage film buff. One film they showed was the 1942 film Journey Into Fear. This film is rarely talked about when mentioning Welles’ filmography, probably because officially the director was Norman Foster. But I think it should be included as part of the official Welles canon. Why? Look at the credits for a start: As well as Welles himself there’s Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead and Ruth Warrick, all of whom were in Citizen Kane. And the script was co-written by Welles too. The film is very Wellesian in its style, take the opening scene played over a cracked and tinny recording – that is pure Welles. It really is a nice little noir. I think we can safely say that at the very least Welles directed his own scenes, and he must surely have influenced Foster’s direction of the film too. So this is my small contribution to re-evaluating this film as an official Welles work.