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The Fallen Idol
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When Baines' wife is found murdered and Baines is implicated, Philippe, an impressionable young boy idolizes Baines, tries everything to point the investigation away from Baines but incriminates him instead in what was, in fact, an accidental death.
When Baines' wife is found murdered and Baines is implicated, Philippe, an impressionable young boy idolizes Baines, tries everything to point the investigation away from Baines but incriminates him instead in what was, in fact, an accidental death.
Actors:
Gerard Heinz,
Dora Bryan,
Michèle Morgan,
Nora Gordon,
John Ruddock,
Geoffrey Keen,
Robert Cawdron,
Torin Thatcher,
George Woodbridge,
Jack Hawkins,
Karel Stepanek,
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Gerard Heinz
2 January 1904, Hamburg, Germany
Dora Bryan
7 February 1923, Parbold, Lancashire, England, UK
Michèle Morgan
29 February 1920, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Nora Gordon
November 29, 1893 in West Hartlepool, England, UK
John Ruddock
20 May 1897, Lima, Peru
Geoffrey Keen
21 August 1916, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Robert Cawdron
29 December 1921, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Torin Thatcher
15 January 1905, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
George Woodbridge
16 February 1907, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Jack Hawkins
14 September 1910, Wood Green, London, England, UK
Karel Stepanek
29 October 1899, BrĂĽnn, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Director:
Carol Reed
Carol Reed
30 December 1906, Putney, London, England, UK
Country:
United Kingdom
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December 09, 2006
It's a gripping mystery story involving adult secrets, childhood lies and betrayal as part of the human equation.
May 25, 2016
The Fallen Idol stands as one of the great films about looking, about perspective, about the way we watch and interpret not just film plots but each other.
Christopher Null
November 14, 2006
separates itself from what would otherwise be a rather rote drama/thriller.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
June 15, 2006
An indelible portrait of childhood's confusions, disillusionments and inevitable lost innocence.
January 01, 2009
... one of the great films of innocence lost and a powerful portrait of the powerlessness of children in the adult world, where they are so often ignored or discounted.
June 13, 2016
The Fallen Idol is one of the best achieved examples in cinema of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.
June 10, 2016
The Fallen Idol finds innocence and inquisitiveness at odds with corruption, violence, desire, deceit - all the stuff that grown-ups trade in.
Michael Wilmington
August 25, 2006
As a portrait of the sometime destructiveness of innocence and as a sharp fresco of post-war Britain, this movie is a little masterpiece, an idol that has never fallen.
February 16, 2016
The film is first-class entertainment.
Colin Covert
October 19, 2006
Masterful 1948 suspense thriller.
May 26, 2016
In some ways an even more brilliant contraption than "The Third Man," and with a third act that might be superior, too.
June 29, 2006
It's a masterful and unsentimental child's-eye view of the cold, hard adult world.