Norman Foster's Journey Into Fear (retitled "Estambul" in Spain) has been issued on DVD in Europe from Spain's Manga Films in a decent if unexceptional edition, transferred from a fairly clean 35 mm source that has lots of detail but also the kind of blemishes that one would expect from a 60-year-old movie that has not been subject to serious restoration work. The Spanish-issued title is a Region 2 disc, playable in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan, or on properly setup computers or all-region players everywhere, and this may be the best way to get the disc -- it doesn't seem likely that Warner Home Video, which controls the RKO library, will devote much attention to a movie that seems little more than a footnote to Orson Welles' career. Actually, although it was directed by Foster, the production was planned in great detail (down to the camera angles) by Orson Welles (who also appears in the movie), and Foster evidently followed Welles' instructions to the letter because even with the cuts imposed by the studio (which brought its running time down to 80 minutes from what would have been closer to 100 minutes), the movie looks like a Welles film and feels like a Welles film. The contrasts are a bit flat -- as is the audio -- when compared to such RKO restorations as Citizen Kane or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. As with other Manga Films releases, the movie can be viewed either dubbed into Spanish without subtitles, dubbed with subtitles, or with its original English-language track and Spanish subtitles -- the latter are tinted amber and surprisingly unobtrusive. The disc opens automatically on a straightforward menu (in Spanish), which includes access to filmographies of four of the stars of the movie and to a pair of British television installments from a television series apparently called Hollywood Remembers, devoted to Welles and to the movie's star (and screenwriter) Joseph Cotten; the latter includes trailers for several Cotten films, including Portrait of Jennie and Since You Went Away.