surprisingly bad consider the involvement of such great actor . like an alternate universe citizen kane . in journey into fear we see many of the same actor and but none of what make kane great . joseph cotton appear annoyingly useless and instead of his usual sympathetic everyman of film like the third man . the plot plod along with strange contrivance . the relationship between cotton and his wife do not sit well and end with the bad scene in the movie . the only thing to fear in the movie be everett sloane twitchy performance and the insane getup of mr welles . the bad guy be quite useless . cotton be barely there . in short it not terrific .