SYNOPSIS: 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 |
By November 06, 2006
The circumstances of our first encounters with movies are often as memorable as the movies themselves. Sometimes the juxtaposition of movie and circumstance seems merely accidental; Read more »
By December 22, 1992
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 Read more »
January 31, 2011
On the occasion of this week’s U.K. release of a new film adaptation of Graham Greene’s sinister classic 1938 novel Brighton Rock, Boyd Tonkin has written a piece for the Independent examining the esteemed Read more »
