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Overall Rank: 2753
Average Rating: 2.9/4
# of Ratings: 19
Theatrical Release Date: 11/15/1949
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey, Denis O'Dea, Jack Hawkins
Plot: Events of the story are scene through the eyes of an impressionable, young son of a diplomat who, though he wants to protect his friends and his butler, Baines, his actions almost certainly mean Baines will be charged with the murder of his wife. -- Chris Kavan
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Snake Sugarbaker - wrote on 12/15/2009
Although director Carol Reed would top The Fallen Idol a year later with his cunning The Third Man, he demonstrates here he is unparalleled at adapting Graham Greene stories. In The Fallen Idol (1948), a ten year-old ambassador’s child believes he witnesses his favorite butler murder his wife. Or at least he talks himself into believing so. A comment on the adult world as seen by a child, The Fallen Idol is somewhat Hitchcockian – and, while it’s not in the least creepy, the film is undoubtedly absorbing.
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