Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Executscan Expected more

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Foggy movie that has to do with seeing the future as well as a ring of Nazi spies in foggy San Francisco working for the Japanese Empire revolving around a clock shop run by one of them Mr.Schiller, Konstantin Shayne, in the Chinatown district. It's when Eilene Carr,Nina Foch, has this reoccurring nightmare about being trapped on the Golden Gate Bridge while someone is about to be stabbed to death that she's suddenly awakened from her dream by what turns out to be the man about to be murdered super secret US Government Agent Barry Malcolm, William Wright, and a fellow tenant who both brake into her hotel room.As we soon find out Agent Barry isn't there to see the sights of the city or have a sea food dinner but deliver to his fellow US undercover agents stationed in far off Japanese occupied Hong Kong a list of those, I guess themselves, who are working there so they won't get confused to who's who and not end up accidentally offing themselves. While Barry is about to be sent on his top secret mission he's kidnapped by the Nazi spies lead by master spy Paul Devon,Otto Kruger, from his taxi, driven by actress Shelly Winters,and forced to spill the beans as well as the secret papers, identifying the US Agents in Hong Kong,to them. This is where we first got in to this strange movie where the dream that Eilene had about Barry being kidnapped and soon to be killed comes to light in-for the second time-the movie! You just don't know what to make of all this is it about the supernatural or just a plain garden verity WWII spy movie with Eilene looking totally confused throughout the entire film. Eevn when she was kidnapped along with Barry-for a second time-after finding the secret memo, that Barry lost or threw away in the fog, by the Nazi spies who planned to murder the both of them by blowing them to bit in a gas explosion at Schiller's clock shop in Chinatown! It was Barry using his noodle-brain-who alerted a number of Chinese in the neighborhood to brake into the clock shop, by flashing with a combination flashlight and magnify glass "Hail Japan", who were anything but pro-Japanese.***SPOILERS****With now both Devon & Schiller's cover blown and on the run from the police as well as Barry they end up shooting themselves by accident in not being able to recognize each other in the thick pea soup like fog. Released in April 1945 with the wars in both the Pacific and Europe just about to come to an end in a German & Japanese defeat there was really nothing for the then American audience to get excited about since the Nazi spies and their Japanese allies were in no position to do us any harm. What was interesting was Eilene's dream of future events that after it was proved to be accurate and in fact saved Agent Barry's life it was never explained or as far as I know mentioned again in the movie!

Spikeopath Escape in the Fog is directed by Oscar "Budd" Boetticher and written by Aubrey Wisberg. It stars Nina Foch, William Wright, Otto Kruger and Konstantin Shayne.Foch plays nurse Eileen Carr who dreams of a man being murdered only to wake and meet the man in real life...Solid programmer out of Columbia, Escape in the Fog runs at just over an hour and gets by on its nifty spy like premise and a good sense of atmosphere. Boetticher himself would say that this early period in his career was all about a learning curve, and he shows some nice economical touches to mask the low budget nature of the production. Film is at its best when Frisco is fog bound, while the war time shenanigans amount to race against time espionage intrigue. Noir darling Foch is good value and Wright decent hero/romantic foil, and the skulduggery dealing villains are a fun product of the time. 6/10

MartinHafer The film begins with a fight on a bridge, as evil men are attempting to kill someone. However, it all turns out to be a dream by Eileen (Nina Foch). But, if it is just a dream, why is Barry (William Wright) in the dream being attacked and who are the other men? Is this a dream or perhaps a pre-cognition--some psychic situation where Eileen can see the future? It turns out that Barry is an agent for the US government and his job is to coordinate the underground in an assault on the Japanese (the war is still on). His boss (Paul--played by Otto Kruger) briefs him on his mission, but only moments later a Nazi agent sneaks into the home and removes a recording device--and now the enemy knows many of the details of his mission.Just after Barry is taken prisoner, Eileen is run over by a passing car. While she's not seriously injured, she once again has one of those weird dreams. When she awakens, she goes to see Paul, but he acts as if he has no idea who Barry is or what her concerns are. Of course, considering he's on a secret mission, it's not surprising that he doesn't acknowledge more--plus what stock can you put in a woman's odd dreams or visions.When Paul won't listen, Eileen rushes to the same bridge where she saw the evil men trying to kill Barry in her first dream. That's because she hopes to rescue him--and that's EXACTLY what happens! So, there is SOMETHING to her crazy dreams--she can see the future! The only negative is that as the men try to kill Barry, he loses a very important package over the side of the bridge that they were trying to toss him over in order to kill him. Oops.Much of the rest of the film concerns both trying to recover the package as well as stopping the evil Nazi spies. And, to make matters worse, these evil dogs now have captured Eileen, so it's up to the good guys to find her, capture the spies and make the world safe.Towards the end, Eileen and Barry are captured and locked in a room. The bad guys then open up the gas valve and lock them in to die. The only problem is that they didn't tie Barry up and there was nothing stopping him from just closing the valve! Instead, he comes up with a scheme to get help! A very silly and obvious mistake in the film.Overall, a silly premise for a film, but considering that it's a cheap B-movie propaganda film, it is still not too bad and pretty watchable today. In fact, the actors tried hard and did decent work but the script was the biggest problem--too many goofy holes or bizarre plot ideas.

goblinhairedguy A woman dreams of a man being murdered, and later she experiences the scene in real life. Before he made his name with the Ranown series of Westerns, Boetticher churned out a skein of low-budget programmers for Columbia and Monogram, many of them well above average. This mystery, while no masterpiece, nicely illustrates what Andrew Sarris called "the beatitude of the Bs". With typical B movie non-logic, the intriguing dream-coming-true angle is taken at face value and never explained. There are a couple of clever escape scenes, and the stylish 40s wardrobe (wide lapels, pin-striped suits, floppy hats) rivals the sartorial splendor of a Hawks movie. Second-string stalwart Nina Foch, more alluring than usual, gives another intelligent performance despite the plot holes. An even finer second-feature from the same director, Behind Locked Doors, has recently received mainstream video release.