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Hardly seen in recent years, the Hitchcockian 1948 “Fallen Idol,” predecessor to “The Third Man,” the better-known collaboration of novelist-scenarist-film critic Graham Greene and director Carol Reed, is a thriller told mostly from the point of view of a child (Bobby Henrey), but the goings-on he witnesses, including a burgeoning love story between butler Ralph Richardson and secretary Michéle Morgan, are distinctly grown up, and to the perspective of a child and an audience to whom information and the plot are being cautiously parceled out, mysterious and captivating. Seldom are tragedies richer than this. Yep, it’s a masterpiece. Rialto’s lovingly restored black-and-white print of Georges Périnal’s cinematography is, of course, a treat as well. 95m. (Ray Pride)
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