The Fallen Idol
It's extraordinary that no one has so far remade Carol Reed's masterly version of Graham Greene's dark little psychodrama set in post-war London and the diplomatic household of some foreign power whose English butler (Ralph Richardson) conceives a passion for a French girlfriend (Michèle Morgan) and then finds himself, through the mistaken eyewitness account of the ambassador's young son (Bobby Henrey), suspected of murdering his wife (Sonia Dresdel). It's a story that would lend itself beautifully to updated London.
Richardson's banked-down passion is brilliantly conveyed, Dresdel goes off the deep end shockingly, Morgan has all the natural glamour of a French film star; only the rather skimped police investigation rings false.
Dora Bryan contributes an early, hilarious cameo as one of what we used to call 'women of the streets'. The production design is stunning.
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