A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.
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- Harry Kleiner(screen play)
- Marty Holland(novel)
- Stars
- Harry Kleiner(screen play)
- Marty Holland(novel)
- Stars
Dorothy Adams
- Stella's Neighbor
- (uncredited)
Robert Adler
- Coroner at Murder Scene
- (uncredited)
Herbert Ashley
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
- Shoeshine Boy
- (uncredited)
Betty Boyd
- Bank Clerk
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Man in Drug Store
- (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
- News Vendor
- (uncredited)
Chick Collins
- 2nd Bus Driver
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
- Walton Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
- Man Leaving Drugstore
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Wade Williams in Alice Faye: The Star Next Door (1996), when Alice Faye saw a rough cut of the film and realized that Otto Preminger's editing had diminished the impact of her performance in favor of newcomer Linda Darnell, she got up from the screening, drove off the 20th Century Fox lot, threw her dressing room key to the security guard and vowed never to work for the studio again.
- GoofsAmong the works listed on the church reader board for June Mills's upcoming organ recital are a "Stabat Mater" by Beethoven and a "Requiem" by Brahms. Beethoven never wrote a 'Stabat Mater', and the only 'Requiem' by Brahms is a massive choral work, highly unlikely to be played as an organ solo.
- Quotes
June Mills: I need you, Eric.
Eric Stanton: [sarcastically] You need me, right.
June Mills: You're my husband, and I'm your wife.
Eric Stanton: Right out of a book, again.
June Mills: Yes, out of a book: "We were born to tread the earth as angels, to seek out heaven this side of the sky. But they who race above shall stumble in the dark, and fall from grace."
Eric Stanton: Go on. Sounds good.
June Mills: "Then love alone can make the fallen angel rise. For only two together can enter Paradise."
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits appear on the screen as a series of road signs seen through the windshield of a bus driving at night time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel (1999)
- SoundtracksSlowly
Music by David Raksin
Lyrics by Kermit Goell
Sung by Dick Haymes (uncredited)
[Continually played on the jukebox at Pop's]
Review
Featured review
FALLEN ANGEL (Otto Preminger, 1945) ***
20th Century Fox's underrated follow-up to LAURA (1944) reteamed director Preminger and leading man Dana Andrews with several of the same crew members (chief among them cinematographer Joseph LaShelle and composer David Raksin). Curiously chosen by the studio's biggest musical star Alice Faye for her 'comeback' role as a dramatic actress (and she is fine in it), unfortunately for her, it collided with Linda Darnell's own stunning "femme fatale" revamp who, even though bumped off halfway through, effortlessly walks away with the film; needless to say, Faye wouldn't make another picture for the next 17 years! Andrews who would have turned 100 on January 1st of this year had he lived and thus I'll be watching several of his movies throughout this month plays the anti-hero: a penniless cad who marries Faye (against elder sister Anne Revere's advice) for her inheritance money but lusts after Darnell as do, understandably, most of the male cast: married detective Charles Bickford (his paradoxical character is a fascinating creation), jukebox salesman Bruce Cabot and Darnell's own employer Percy Kilbride; favorite character actor John Carradine, made up to look like some forbidding Scandinavian pastor, has an amusing bit as a mentalist Andrews hitches up with early on. The routine plot is transformed by Preminger's fluid direction which envelops that formidable cast in expert chiaroscuro lighting. Andrews is eventually reformed through Faye's unconditional love for him but the seedy ambiance of that first half permeates the whole film.
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- Bunuel1976
- Jan 10, 2009
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