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Fallen Angel: RRP 19.99

certificate PG Certificate
1945
Black & White
USA
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673006122
Ratio 1.33:1
Region 2
Price: £19.99
(Including VAT at 20%)
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Fallen Angel: RRP 19.99 
Preminger, Otto
In collaboration with Twentieth Century Fox, BFI Video releases Fallen Angel along with Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends and Whirlpool in its new strand, The Film Noir Collection.

Dana Andrews (who also appeared in Preminger's hugely successful film Laura the previous year) stars as Eric Stanton, a press agent down on his luck, who drifts into a small coastal town in California. He meets June (Alice Faye), a wealthy but reclusive woman, and has his eye on Stella (Linda Darnell), a sultry waitress. Although falling in love with Stella, Eric is broke and decides to marry June for her money, planning a rapid divorce in favour of Stella. However, when Stella is mysteriously murdered, he becomes a suspect and things begin to go wrong...

Fallen Angel centres on Eric's relationship with the two women. As in the later Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Dana Andrews embodies a character who is dangerously untrustworthy but in whom women seem to recognise an underlying integrity. However, little in the film is quite as it seems. Stella proves to be more principled than expected and June is less inhibited. Eric is not quite the rat he first appears to be and his cynicism is ultimately transformed into romance, indicated in the line of verse from which the film takes its title: 'Then love alone can make the fallen angel rise.'

The film explores, as do many other melodramas of the period such as Mildred Pierce (1945) and Shadow of a Doubt (1943), the attraction exerted by a raffish or unreliable man who brings excitement into the lives of women seemingly trapped in small-town boredom. While apparently reconfirming conventional morality, these films give a glimpse of something more exciting.

Extras
* Theatrical trailer
* Biography of Otto Preminger
* Biography of story-writer Marty Holland
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