Fallen Angel is a 1945 black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who also worked with Preminger on the film Laura a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, among others. The film is famous for being the last film Faye made as a major Hollywood superstar. Disappointed at how studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck cut her role out of the picture, Faye left t...
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Fallen Angel is a 1945 black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who also worked with Preminger on the film Laura a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, among others. The film is famous for being the last film Faye made as a major Hollywood superstar. Disappointed at how studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck cut her role out of the picture, Faye left the studio that day and did not make another film until 1962's State Fair (1962 film).
The tale of Eric Stanton – a down-on-his-luck former New York press agent who becomes a drifter and con man begins with a car speeding down the road. Stanton (Dana Andrews) gets pulled off the bus because he doesn't have the $2.25 necessary to get to San Francisco (he’s about 150 miles short of the city). He lands in the small hamlet of Walton and walks over to Pop's Eats and runs into a group of men who are discussing the disappearance of waitress Stella....
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