Fallen angel is a 1945 blackandwhite film noir directed by otto preminger, with cinematography by joseph lashelle, who had also worked with preminger on. Fallen angel is a 1945 film noir about the misfortunes of a drifter caught between two lovers. A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for. Despite some plot implausibilities, fallen angel is a good watch thanks to some nearly claustrophobic setsparticularly the diner, where much of the story takes place. Blonde floozy drifts into town, waitress at bar, wants bar owner to take money and leave wher. But they who race above shall stumble in the dark, and fall from grace. Sep 21, 2016 fallen angel is certainly the perfect title for a film noir. I have read several books about preminger and he was happy with fayes performance in fallen angel but even otto could not stop zanuck tampering which is sad as fox and the public lost a warm, tender and capable actress at only 30 years of age. Read the full synopsis of fallen angel, 1945, directed by otto preminger, with alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell, at turner classic movies.
Fallen angel is a film directed by otto preminger with dana andrews, alice faye, linda darnell, charles bickford, year. Kicked off a bus traveling crosscountry for not being able to come up with the fare. Fallen angel 1945 cast and crew an unemployed drifter, eric stanton dana andrews wanders into a small california town and begins hanging around the local diner. Andrews was cast as a gold digger who marries a rich socialite alice faye and then finds that he is accused of murdering his waitress mistress linda darnell.
Dana andrews, linda darnell, alice faye, charles bickford, anne. Fallen angel the rendition of the titular poem had an eerie sense of a pending suicide pact inherent in it, i felt falls way short of my standards in most departments, but boasts a great cast, at least. Toronto film society presented fallen angel 1945 on monday, july 29, 2019 in a double bill with force of evil as part of the season 72 summer series, programme 4. Those are all elements peripherally in otto premingers film, but screenwriter harry kleiner ends up taking a wrong turn into domestic drama.
Starring alice faye, dana andrews and linda darnell with charles bickford, anne revere, bruce cabot, john carradine, and percy kilbride. Eric stanton dana andrews is a broke and dejected press agent who. A 1945 film noir directed by otto preminger, fallen angel stars dana andrews, alice faye, and linda darnell. For my taste, the films downanddirty mood captures the essence of film noir more so than laura. It was the last film faye made as a major hollywood star and she did not make another film until state fair 1962. This is just one of 5 films offered in the limited edition release. Eric stanton dana andrews, thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called pops eats, whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the name of stella. And in the scene with linda darnell on the beach he totally grabs her butt underneath her coat. Slick con man eric stanton andrews finds himself in the small california town of walton, on the coast between l. Some may find the second half of the film quaintly melodramatic and david raksins romantic score is admittedly less memorable than laura but fallen angel deserves to be seen and viewed within its credentials. Otto preminger directed this stylish film noir exercise, intended as a followup to his surprise hit laura. Fallen angel 1945 alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell.
Released 1945, fallen angel stars alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 37 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which assembled. Aug 22, 20 fallen angel is a tragic version of the main title. Ironically, the following year, many of the key plot and character elements of fallen angel a roadside california diner, a troubled drifter, an ambitious femme fatale waitress, etc. The film features alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell and charles bickford. Never hotter than in fallen angel, in spite of what a sleazy guy he was playing. The 1945 film noir drama fallen angel was seen by twentiethcentury foxs boss darryl f. Hello fellow wikipedians, i have just modified one external link on fallen angel 1945 film. The tremulous camera adds an unease heightened when the bus driver turns and stares. There are also a few very nice cameos, with john carradine worthy of special mentioning. A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more. He marries june mills alice faye for her money, and stella is.
He meets june alice faye, a wealthy but reclusive woman, and has his eye on stella linda darnell, a sultry waitress. Dana andrews, linda darnell, alice faye, charles bickford, anne revere, bruce cabot, john carradine, percy kilbride, dorothy. His new racket in this town is selling tickets to a. Fallen angel is a 1945 blackandwhite film noir directed by otto preminger, with cinematography by joseph lashelle, who had also worked with preminger on laura a year before. Fallen angel is a 1945 film noir directed by otto preminger, with cinematography by joseph lashelle, who had also worked with preminger on laura a year before. The absurdity of the plot is the main factor preventing fallen angel from being one of the great classics of its genre, but thanks to its taut screenplay, faultless direction and mesmeric performances from two of the peerless stalwarts of american film noir dana andrews and linda darnell it can hardly fail to engage and entertain. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple faq for additional information. Since stella isnt interested in eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over. Zanuck as an opportunity to show a new alice faye as a transformation to dramatic star from her hugely successful previous career as the studios premiere leading lady of musicals. Otto preminger rarely gets credit for being one of the founding fathers of film noir. Watch fallen angel online stream full movie directv. While eric falls for the lovely waitress stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and welltodo woman named june mills. Eric stanton dana andrews is a broke and dejected press agent who is thrown off a crosscountry bus. Mar 24, 2020 an unemployed drifter, eric stanton wanders into a small california town and begins hanging around the local diner.
Since stella isnt interested in eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves june. Fallen angel, directed by otto preminger, was his followup movie to laura. While this soundtrack doesnt have that hard bite and gritty sound of a rozsa score for the period the material a little on the schmaltzy at times is quite effective for the film. We were born to tread the earth as angels, to seek out heaven this side of the sky. Fallen angel is a 1945 blackandwhite film noir directed by otto preminger, with cinematography by joseph lashelle, who had also worked. Dec 23, 2016 a slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for. Fallen angel is a 1945 blackandwhite film noir directed by otto preminger, with cinematography by joseph. The film features alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell, and charles bickford. Preminger used more or less the same crew as on the earlier film and also the same male lead, dana andrews andrews eventually made five films for preminger. Fallen angel 1945 stream and watch online moviefone.
Fallen angel marked a dramatic change of pace for alice faye. While eric falls for the lovely waitress stella linda darnell, he also begins romancing a quiet and welltodo woman named june mills alice faye. The film noir of the week is fallen angel the 1945 film directed by otto preminger. It amazes me what preminger was able to get away with. Fallen angel a film by otto preminger eric stanton dana andrews, a press agent down on his luck, drifts into a small californian coastal town. Overview of fallen angel, 1945, directed by otto preminger, with alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell, at turner classic movies. Centennial summer 1946 was a bland if colourful musical set at. I dont think fallen angel shortchanges her as much as people say, in fact, i found myself moved by her performance in the last half of the film. Faye was so angry that she quit the movie business altogether and didnt appear in another film until state fair in 1962. An unemployed drifter, eric stanton dana andrews wanders into a small california town and begins hanging around the local diner. As the story grows increasingly improbable, its very much a case of style over substance, but with a lot of style. Fallen angel has never enjoyed the critical adulation of laura but in its own way its just as interesting. Fallen angel doslovnym prekladem padly andel je americky film noir rezisera otty premingera z roku 1945, koncipovany jako pribeh o posedlosti, strachu a hledani smyslu lidske existence.