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The Fallen Idol
When Baines' wife is found murdered and Baines is implicated, Philippe, an impressionable young boy idolizes Baines, tries everything to point the investigation away from Baines but incriminates him instead in what was, in fact, an accidental death.
15 January 1905, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
10 January 1908, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK
14 September 1910, Wood Green, London, England, UK
26 June 1939, Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados, France
29 December 1921, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France
20 May 1897, Lima, Peru
2 January 1904, Hamburg, Germany
23 April 1907, Lonuvla, India
1 February 1900, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
21 August 1916, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
21 May 1907, Fulham, London, England, UK
29 February 1920, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
November 14, 2006
separates itself from what would otherwise be a rather rote drama/thriller.
June 15, 2006
An indelible portrait of childhood's confusions, disillusionments and inevitable lost innocence.
August 25, 2006
As a portrait of the sometime destructiveness of innocence and as a sharp fresco of post-war Britain, this movie is a little masterpiece, an idol that has never fallen.
December 09, 2006
It's a gripping mystery story involving adult secrets, childhood lies and betrayal as part of the human equation.
February 16, 2016
The film is first-class entertainment.
May 26, 2016
In some ways an even more brilliant contraption than "The Third Man," and with a third act that might be superior, too.
May 25, 2016
The Fallen Idol stands as one of the great films about looking, about perspective, about the way we watch and interpret not just film plots but each other.
January 01, 2009
... one of the great films of innocence lost and a powerful portrait of the powerlessness of children in the adult world, where they are so often ignored or discounted.
October 19, 2006
Masterful 1948 suspense thriller.
June 29, 2006
It's a masterful and unsentimental child's-eye view of the cold, hard adult world.
June 10, 2016
The Fallen Idol finds innocence and inquisitiveness at odds with corruption, violence, desire, deceit - all the stuff that grown-ups trade in.
June 13, 2016
The Fallen Idol is one of the best achieved examples in cinema of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.