Fallen Angel

feature film, crime drama, USA, 1945

DIRECTED BY: Otto Preminger

Fallen Angel

CAST:
Alice Faye (June Mills),
Dana Andrews (Eric Stanton),
Linda Darnell (Stella),
Charles Bickford (Mark Judd),
Anne Revere (Clara Mills)

SCRIPT:
Harry Kleiner (based on the novel by Marty Holland)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Joseph LaShelle

MUSIC:
David Raksin

EDITING:
Harry Reynolds

Synopsis:
Eric Stanton arrives in a small town in California, after he was thrown off a bus because he didn’t have enough money for a ticket. In a local restaurant he meets a beautiful waitress, Stella, and falls in love with her. She turns him down because he is broke. So, Eric comes up with a plan: he marries June Mills, a local unmarried girl, in order to divorce her and get his hands on June’s money and eventually on Stella. But, his plan fails because Stella is murdered, and he becomes the prime suspect…

b/w, 98'

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