THE FALLEN IDOL d: Carol Reed
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Direction: Carol Reed
Screenplay: Graham Greene, from his short story "The Basement Room"; additional dialogue by Lesley Storm and William Templeton
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O’Dea, Jack Hawkins, Walter Fitzgerald
Michèle Morgan, Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
The 1948 drama The Fallen Idol is the third film I’ve seen by British filmmaker Carol Reed. I’d previously watched the dreadful Oscar-winning musical Oliver! (1968) and the stolid Charlton Heston biopic of Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). True, I’ve also seen The Third Man, the 1949 thriller attributed to Reed, though I’ve always hedged upon taking the stance that it was Reed’s film alone and not an Orson Welles [...]
by Dan Schneider | January 10, 2008
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Tags: Bobby Henrey, Carol Reed, Classic Movies, Film Reviews, Graham Greene, Michèle Morgan, Oscar 1949, Oscar Movies, Psychological Drama, Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man
British Critics Pick Best British Films
Total Film magazine recently asked twenty-five British film critics to come up with their choices of the best British films ever made. The result is somewhat surprising, with the 1971 Mike Hodges-directed thriller Get Carter chosen as Britain’s very best movie ever. Other top-ten surprises include Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the James Bond actioner From Russia with Love, and Mike Leigh’s Naked. No pre-1945 film made it to the top ten.
Here’s the list:
1. Get Carter (1971)
2. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
3. Trainspotting (1996)
4. The Third Man (1949)
5. Life of Brian (1979)
6. The Wicker Man [...]
