United Kingdom
1948
95 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
357
The Fallen Idol was the first of three masterpieces to result from the legendary meeting of director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene, who together would also create The Third Man and Our Man in Havana. Elegantly balancing suspense and farce, this tale of the fraught relationship between a boy and the beloved butler he suspects of murder is a delightfully macabre thriller of the first order and a visually and verbally dazzling knockout.
| Baines | Ralph Richardson |
| Julie | Michèle Morgan |
| Mrs. Baines | Sonia Dresdel |
| Phillipe | Bobby Henrey |
| Inspector Crowe | Denis O'Dea |
| Detective Ames | Jack Hawkins |
| Detective Hart | Bernard Lee |
| Director | Carol Reed |
| Screenplay | Graham Greene |
| Producer | Carol Reed |
| Cinematography | Georges Perinal |
| Editing | Oswald Hafenrichter |
| Art director | Vincent Korda and James Sawyer |
| Music | William Alwyn |
Around these parts, Graham Greene is best known as the brilliant British novelist who also wrote the screenplays for Carol Reed’s The Fallen Idol and The Third Man. But even before he made film history with those unforgettable classics, he was writing about the state of contemporary...
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At first blush, The Fallen Idol might seem to be an ambered treasure, duly noted in the guidebooks as “worth a special visit.” It has, after all, a script by noted littérateur Graham Greene; it plays upon the classic themes of trust, innocence, betrayal, truth; its story is one of...
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