An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Alice Faye
June Mills
Dana Andrews
Eric Stanton
Linda Darnell
Stella
Charles Bickford
Mark Judd
Anne Revere
Clara Mills
Bruce Cabot
Dave Atkins
John Carradine
Professor Madley
Percy Kilbride
Pop
Dorothy Adams
Stella's Downstairs Neighbor (uncredited)
Robert Adler
Coroner at Murder Scene (uncredited)
Director
Otto Preminger
Screenplay
Harry Kleiner
Tagline
"The creator of "Laura" does it again!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$1,500,000
Production
20th Century Fox
Steve
July 1, 2016
The Film Noir of the Week is Fallen Angel -- the 1945 film directed by Otto Preminger. The cast includes Dana Andrews (Boomerang! (1947) and Laura (1944), Charles Bickford Brute Force (1947), Linda Darnell Hangover Square (1945), Anne Revere Secret Beyond the Door... (1948) and John Carradine Female Jungle (1954), Bluebeard (1944) The film begins with a car speeding down the road with the credi...
John Chard
July 18, 2020
Then love alone can make the fallen angel rise. Fallen Angel is directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who also worked with Preminger on the film Laura the year before. The film stars Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell & Charles Bickford. Seen as something of a lesser entry in film noir and on Preminger's CV (he claimed to not even remembering the film when qui...
CinemaSerf
July 1, 2022
Dana Andrews is "Eric Stanton", broke, bumming his way around the country, charming, fibbing and embellishing his way to food and lodgings where he can. He is chucked off a Greyhound bus (by a driver who looked remarkably like Ward Bond) in a sleepy coastal town, where he heads to a local diner to plan how best to continue his journey on to San Francisco. His plans change suddenly, however, when h...
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