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Plot summary
Stephen Neale is released from Lembridge Asylum and waits for a train to London. A charity fête run by the Mothers of Free Nations is under way nearby, and a palm reader, Mrs. Bellane, tells him to guess the weight of a cake in a contest. He wins it. People at the fête press him to hand the cake to a young blond man, and he refuses. In his train compartment, a blind passenger crumbles a slice of the cake.
Cast
- Vangie Beilbyas Old Lady at Charity Bazaar (uncredited)
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- Evelyn Beresfordas Fat Lady at Charity Bazaar (uncredited)
- Arthur Blakeas Man (uncredited)
- George Broughtonas Man in Tailor's Shop (uncredited)
- Bruce Carruthersas Police Clerk (uncredited)
- Anne Cursonas Lady with Children (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ministry of Fear (1944)
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In Graham Greene's novel Willi Hilfe shoots himself with a single bullet in a railway station lavatory and his sister Anna never kills him; Fritz Lang's film instead has Carla Hilfe shoot her brother dead, and adds a rooftop shootout with Nazi agents that the book lacks.SPOILER
In Graham Greene's novel the protagonist murders his wife by slipping poison into her milk and leaving her to die alone; in Fritz Lang's film, by contrast, he obtains the poison at her request but cannot administer it.- Fritz Lang's film drops the novel's subplot in which Rowe is held with amnesia in Dr Forester's private asylum and works out that the institution is run by Nazi agents who eliminate inmates who learn too much.
