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Un angelo è caduto

Titolo originale: Fallen Angel
  • 1945
  • T
  • 1h 38min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,0/10
7016
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Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Alice Faye in Un angelo è caduto (1945)
Trailer for this black and white, dramatic classic
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CrimineFilm noirMisteroRomanticismo

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.

  • Regia
    • Otto Preminger
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Harry Kleiner
    • Marty Holland
  • Star
    • Alice Faye
    • Dana Andrews
    • Linda Darnell
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,0/10
    7016
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Otto Preminger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Harry Kleiner
      • Marty Holland
    • Star
      • Alice Faye
      • Dana Andrews
      • Linda Darnell
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    Alice Faye
    Alice Faye
    • June Mills
    Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews
    • Eric Stanton
    Linda Darnell
    Linda Darnell
    • Stella
    Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford
    • Mark Judd
    Anne Revere
    Anne Revere
    • Clara Mills
    Bruce Cabot
    Bruce Cabot
    • Dave Atkins
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Professor Madley
    Percy Kilbride
    Percy Kilbride
    • Pop
    Dorothy Adams
    Dorothy Adams
    • Stella's Neighbor
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    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Coroner at Murder Scene
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    Herbert Ashley
    Herbert Ashley
    • Reporter
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    Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
    Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
    • Shoeshine Boy
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Betty Boyd
    Betty Boyd
    • Bank Clerk
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    Chet Brandenburg
    Chet Brandenburg
    • Man in Drug Store
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    Paul E. Burns
    Paul E. Burns
    • News Vendor
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    Chick Collins
    • 2nd Bus Driver
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    Jimmy Conlin
    Jimmy Conlin
    • Walton Hotel Clerk
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    Franklyn Farnum
    Franklyn Farnum
    • Man Leaving Drugstore
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      • Otto Preminger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Harry Kleiner
      • Marty Holland
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    7secragt

    Sensationally Nuts (But Entertaining)

    FALLEN ANGEL so brazenly bowls right through and over a bevy of inconsistencies and implausibilities, it is a surprisingly entertaining ride. It's certainly not better than LAURA or anything approaching "seminal" and does have credibility gaps wider than the Grand Canyon (unusual for Preminger), but I seem to keep coming back to one thing.. this is a satisfying movie!

    One significant plus is the performances of the three leads. Diamond- jawed toughguy con artist Dana Andrews dizzily monotones his way through a fusillade of come-ons and take-offs, shucking and jiving his way upwards in a bedroom community with quiet panache and casual menace. Alice Faye (who was so edited out in favor of Linda Darnell that she basically quit the business for the better part of two decades) shines as the closeted church organist with a heart of gold and lust. And Darnell makes the most of her smoulderingly disaffected come hither (but don't touch me) gazes. As bizarre as it is to think men would order lousy food in the greasy spoon dive where Darnell waitresses day after day, year after year in order to be around her, this is about the only thing in the entire script which is remotely plausible.

    Don't examine motives, track character arcs or analyze logic and you'll be happier with FALLEN ANGEL. In a movie where the police deputize civilians to beat up witnesses in order to "gather information" and where some individuals' entire character and identity change at the drop of a hat, the charm of this movie is in the gleefully melodramatic yet charming interactions of the love quadrilateral that is Alice Faye, Faye's sister, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell. In particular, Andrews and Darnell display some good chemistry in their dark and twisted courtship, which in 2004 plays as much like a borderline stalking and attempted rape as it does romance. It must have been particularly racy in 1945.

    Not believable for a second, but enjoyable for more than an hour, FALLEN ANGEL is worth a look for hardcore fans of crime drama, noir, and Dana Andrews / Linda Darnell. Possibly the definitive example of "bad boy meets bad girl, bad boy marries good girl to steal her money to get bad girl, bad boy blamed for bad girl's murder, bad boy ends up with good girl thanks to bizarre and ridiculous deus ex machina ending" out there. Like Andrews' irrational love for Darnell, the less you analyze it, the more hidden charms you may find to appreciate. Seven bullets out of ten.
    7csteidler

    Dark tale of deception and disappointment

    Drifter Dana Andrews hops off a bus on a lonely night in a little coastal town. He walks into a diner called Pop's and makes himself at home. It's not long before Andrews encounters two women:

    Sultry Linda Darnell is Stella, a waitress at Pop's. She is hot stuff--every man who meets her instantly falls in love. Andrews catches Stella's attention pretty easily but she's not interested in a man with only one dollar in his pocket. He tells her he knows where he can get $12,500--and starts hanging around...

    Prim Alice Faye, who lives with her sister in a large house that their father has left them. Andrews has discovered that Faye and sister share a $25,000 estate just waiting to be cashed in. He befriends and pursues her, planning to marry her, grab her money, and run off with Darnell.

    Dana Andrews is kind of a rat in this story. The men he meets at Pop's are equally unsavory: Salesman Bruce Cabot, who seems to be Stella's current boyfriend; former policeman Charles Bickford, crotchety and vaguely menacing; and Pop himself, Percy Kilbride, who is even more obsessed with Stella than everybody else.

    Darnell is outstanding as Stella, and it helps that she gets the best close ups and dialog. Alice Faye, on the other hand, has a role that is just not convincing....why does she fall for such an obvious crook as Andrews? We just don't know. (The theory that studio brass insisted on boosting Darnell's role at Faye's expense seems to make sense, though--if Faye's part was cut way down, no wonder she seems like such a dolt.)

    Andrews gives a good performance as the scheming, dreaming, irresistible drifter...his sometimes-despicable character is indeed almost sympathetic. Anne Revere has a small but important role as Faye's not-so-gullible sister.

    The plot includes not only Andrews's wicked plans but other characters' jealous schemes as well, leading up to an eventual murder. The picture's pace is deliberate but never boring; it seems like no matter which combination of characters is on screen, we are watching them do their best to deceive and dissemble.

    Not completely satisfying but definitely worthwhile, especially for the beautiful photography and Darnell's breezy command of all these men's emotions.
    7daniewhite-1

    Fallen Andrews

    With these characters Dana Andrews seldom goes wrong; and here in 'Fallen Angel' his performance is very creditable: never an actor with a wide range of performance what he did do well he did very well.

    Here his character suits him: a rascal and a chancer, a low beat and a drop out, but smart, aware, angry, resourceful and determined; teamed with a fellow cast of equally, if different, anglers and no-good characters.

    Nice flashes of physical brutality with a charged hint of that exact kind of male "driving" that can cause trouble for unwary women and competing men at each of the rare occurrences of outright violence.

    The direction, scene setups and cinematography often raise this film even higher in quality. Lovely flowing camera positions follow, react to and even anticipate onscreen moves. Long takes are used effectively whenever 'Fallen Angel' gets really dark and close between it's trapped characters.

    Sex and lust bubble between Dana and both his fiances nicely and there's never a doubt in my mind that every character has either got a sex life, had a sex life, or at least has a sex drive! They don't just want to fall in love. Or pretend to. There's direct human sexual motivation at play.

    The murder victim and the police investigation and the eventual culprit are all nicely handled although a few times 'Fallen Angel' does require either extra patience or suspension of disbelief from the viewer due either to clunky plot devices or a slightly un-captivating narrative force deriving from the writer and director. A little more narrative vibrancy, more cinematic treatment, more film noir sensibility would have helped me to let the film lead me where it would.

    My final score is a 7/10 but I've really rounded up a high 6 a little, mainly because the fluid handling of the camera, scene set ups and flashes of expressive cinematography do completment a cast suited to their roles and produce a film that as a whole is memorable and interesting if not quite successful as a dramatic story. Pragmatically this would rate a 6 for me but I choose to turn half a blind eye to its more conventional failings and emphasis it's stylistic and tonal value.
    7bmacv

    Preminger's follow-up to Laura quite interesting if flawed

    Otto Preminger rarely gets credit for being one of the founding fathers of film noir; in addition to this film, there's of course Laura, and Angel Face, Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Thirteenth Letter, and other films with a heavy noir influence (Man with the Golden Arm). Fallen Angel's least interesting aspect (interestingly) is its murder plot. The tainted, ambiguous relationships that Dana Andrews forges when he drifts into a California coastal village make this film a dark study in romantic pathology. It also features Linda Darnell at her most sultry and mercenary; Alice Faye (her only appearance, I think, in the noir cycle); John Carradine; Charles Bickford (as a policeman with a past); Ann Revere (whom most of us think of as a tenement mom to John Garfield); and even Percy Kilbride before his Pa Kettle days. Andrews' very layered tension between rich good gal Faye and gold-digging bad girl Darnell keeps the viewer off balance all the way through.
    7hitchcockthelegend

    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 quizzed about it once!), the piece is famous for being the last film Faye made as a major Hollywood actress. Disappointed at how studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck and Preminger cut her role out of the picture (they were all about Darnell), Faye left the studio the day after a preview screening, and did not make another film for 16 years.

    The plot sees Andrews as press agent Eric Stanton, who down on his luck gets turfed off the bus some 150 miles from San Francisco and finds that he is in the small coastal town of Walton. Here he meets sultry waitress Stella (Darnell) and frumpy recluse June (Faye). The former he is very attracted too, so is everybody else it seems, the latter has just come into a lot of inheritance money, something else that catches Eric's eye. Pretty soon his life will be surrounded by love, infatuation, jealousy and worst of all - murder.

    More a mystery whodunit than an overtly dark venture into the realm of film noir, Fallen Angel is still a tidy and atmospheric movie. One where we can never be fully sure everything is as it at first seems. Especially the three main protagonists, where Preminger, in spite of not remembering doing so, misdirects the audience about the character's make ups. This greatly aids the whodunit structure where the killer is well disguised until the end reveal. Its also nicely shot by LaShelle, where the lighting is key for scenes involving the more vixen like Darnell and the more homely Faye, the difference, and what it says, is quite striking. It be a nice narrative line to follow on revisits to the film.

    The acting is safe, with Darnell leaving the red blooded men amongst us happy and wanting more. And in spite of some uneven threading of the plot in the last quarter, the end is a triumph and a genuine surprise. 7/10

    Footnote: The source novel the movie was adapted from was written by Marty Holland. Also the author of "The File on Thelma Jordan" (1949), Marty was actually a she named Mary, of who little or nothing else is known about because after 1949 she upped and vanished never to be heard of again!

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      According to Wade Williams in Alice Faye: The Star Next Door (1996), when Alice Faye saw a rough cut of the film and realized that Otto Preminger's editing had diminished the impact of her performance in favor of newcomer Linda Darnell, she got up from the screening, drove off the 20th Century Fox lot, threw her dressing room key to the security guard and vowed never to work for the studio again.
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      Among the works listed on the church reader board for June Mills's upcoming organ recital are a "Stabat Mater" by Beethoven and a "Requiem" by Brahms. Beethoven never wrote a 'Stabat Mater', and the only 'Requiem' by Brahms is a massive choral work, highly unlikely to be played as an organ solo.
    • Citazioni

      June Mills: I need you, Eric.

      Eric Stanton: [sarcastically] You need me, right.

      June Mills: You're my husband, and I'm your wife.

      Eric Stanton: Right out of a book, again.

      June Mills: Yes, out of a book: "We were born to tread the earth as angels, to seek out heaven this side of the sky. But they who race above shall stumble in the dark, and fall from grace."

      Eric Stanton: Go on. Sounds good.

      June Mills: "Then love alone can make the fallen angel rise. For only two together can enter Paradise."

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      The opening credits appear on the screen as a series of road signs seen through the windshield of a bus driving at night time.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Biography: Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel (1999)
    • Colonne sonore
      Slowly
      Music by David Raksin

      Lyrics by Kermit Goell

      Sung by Dick Haymes (uncredited)

      [Continually played on the jukebox at Pop's]

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    • Data di uscita
      • 27 settembre 1948 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Watson Drug Store - 116 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange, California, Stati Uniti(June stops at a Rexall drug store)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      • 1h 38min(98 min)
    • Colore
      • Black and White
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.37 : 1

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