THE FALLEN IDOL (CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The Fallen Idol was the first of three masterpieces to result from the legendary meeting of director Carol Reed and Writer Graham Greene, who together would also create The Third Man and Our Man in Havana. Elegantly balancing suspense and farce, this tale of the fraught relationship between a boy and the beloved butler he suspects of murder is a delightfully macabre thriller of the first order and a visually and verbally dazzling knockout.
• Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey, Denis O'Dea, Jack Hawkins, Walter Fitzgerald, Dandy Nichols, Joan Young, Karel Stepanek, Gerard Heinz, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Geoffrey Keen, Bernard Lee, John Ruddock, Hay Petrie, Dora Bryan, George Woodbridge, Robert Cawdron, Ethel Coleridge, Nora Gordon, Ralph Norman, James Swan, Carol Reed, Graham Greene, Lesley Storm, William Templeton
• Director: Carol Reed
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: London Film Productions Ltd., Canal+ Image UK Ltd., STUDIOCANAL Limited (STUDIOCANAL Ltd.), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie