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.
29 October 1899, Brünn, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
2 January 1904, Hamburg,
16 July 1895, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
15 January 1905, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
21 May 1907, Fulham, London, England, UK
November 29, 1893 in West Hartlepool, England, UK
16 February 1907, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
26 June 1939, Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados,
18 May 1896, Keyhan, Derby, England, UK
26 April 1905, Dublin, Ireland
7 February 1923, Parbold, Lancashire, England, UK
29 February 1920, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine],
20 May 1897, Lima, Peru
23 April 1907, Lonuvla, India
1 February 1900, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
5 May 1909, Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
21 August 1916, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
29 December 1921, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine,
14 September 1910, Wood Green, London, England, UK
19 December 1902, Tivoli Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
10 January 1908, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK
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.
December 09, 2006
It's a gripping mystery story involving adult secrets, childhood lies and betrayal as part of the human equation.
November 14, 2006
separates itself from what would otherwise be a rather rote drama/thriller.
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.
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.
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.
June 29, 2006
It's a masterful and unsentimental child's-eye view of the cold, hard adult world.
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.
February 16, 2016
The film is first-class entertainment.
October 19, 2006
Masterful 1948 suspense thriller.
June 15, 2006
An indelible portrait of childhood's confusions, disillusionments and inevitable lost innocence.
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.
