Journey Into Fear (1943) review

While in Turkey with his wife, armaments engineer Howard Graham (Joseph Cotten, who co-wrote the script) fears for his life when he's almost shot during a nightclub show and Col. Haki (Orson Welles, looking like Joseph Stalin with a vaguely Russian accent), who's the head of the Secret Police, sneaks him onboard a ship headed to Georgia (not the state) ... but there's an assassin trailing him.  As usual with nearly everything Welles was involved with, there seems to have been problems with the production (he was fired by RKO) and the movie itself, running a scant sixty-eight minutes, feels not only rushed through but a little incomprehensible, and it doesn't so much "conclude" as "stop."  There are some intriguing moments, however: Howard's nighttime conversations with dancer Josette (Dolores del Rio) on the dank boat feel both dangerous and romantic.