“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.”
Ralph Richardson stars as Baines, a butler working in a foreign embassy in London, who comes under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death. The only witness to her death is the diplomat’s son, Philipe, who idolises Baines and refuses to believe he can possibly be guilty… Adapted from Graham Green's short story, The Fallen Idol was Carol Reed and Green's first adaptation: an underseen gem of a movie and the film Green preferred to the more famous, The Third Man.
