Snake Sugarbaker's Movie Review of The Fallen Idol

Rating of
3/4

The Fallen Idol

Do you know where your parents are?
Snake Sugarbaker - wrote on 12/15/09

Although director Carol Reed would top The Fallen Idol a year later with his cunning The Third Man, he demonstrates here he is unparalleled at adapting Graham Greene stories. In The Fallen Idol (1948), a ten year-old ambassador’s child believes he witnesses his favorite butler murder his wife. Or at least he talks himself into believing so. A comment on the adult world as seen by a child, The Fallen Idol is somewhat Hitchcockian – and, while it’s not in the least creepy, the film is undoubtedly absorbing.

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