All Fall Down
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In one of his first roles, Warren Beatty plays a callous, self-involved young man who is idolized by his younger brother Brandon DeWilde. When Beatty and DeWilde's parents Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury take in Eva Marie Saint as a boarder, Beatty makes violent love to the poor (but not entirely unwilling) girl. Saint becomes pregnant, a contingency which brings out the absolute worst in Beatty. When he deserts her, she kills herself. Only at this point does DeWilde (who has worshipped Saint from afar) realize that Beatty has feet of clay. Attempting to kill his older brother, DeWilde relents when he decides that Beatty is more pathetic than evil. Playwright William Inge adapted the screenplay for All Fall Down from a novel by James Leo Herlihy. So dependent is this film on its stark black and white photography that the currently available colorized version is tantamount to sacrilege. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviCast
- Eva Marie Saint - Echo O'Brien
- Warren Beatty - Berry-Berry Willart
- Karl Malden - Ralph Willart
- Angela Lansbury - Annabel Willan
- Brandon de Wilde - Clinton Willart
Credit
George W. Davis - Art Director, Preston Ames - Art Director, Dorothy Jeakins - Costume Designer, Hal W. Polaire - First Assistant Director, John Frankenheimer - Director, Frederic Steinkamp - Editor, Alex North - Composer (Music Score), Lionel Lindon - Cinematographer, John Houseman - Producer, Henry W. Grace - Set Designer, George R. Nelson - Set Designer, William Inge - Screenwriter, James Leo Herlihy - Book Author| All Extreme (Film), All Dressed up and No Place to Go (1996 Film) | |
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| Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
| Produced by | John Houseman |
| Screenplay by | William Inge |
| Based on | the novel All Fall Down (1960) by James Leo Herlihy |
| Starring | Eva Marie Saint Warren Beatty Karl Malden Angela Lansbury Brandon deWilde |
| Music by | Alex North |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Editing by | Fredric Steinkamp |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | April 11, 1962 |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film, adapted from the novel All Fall Down (1960) by James Leo Herlihy, the author of Midnight Cowboy (1965). It was directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was adapted by playwright William Inge from the novel and the film starred Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty.
Upon its release, the film was a minor box-office hit. Together with her performance in Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Angela Lansbury (who played a mother in both films) won the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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Plot
Berry-Berry Willart (Beatty) is a young, handsome hedonistic drifter who hates life and who has no trouble living off the women of all ages he seduces. When the women become too attached to him, his charm turns sadistic and frequently lands him in jail for battery. Berry-Berry is always on the road far from home, is rarely seen by his drunken father Ralph (Karl Malden), his controlling Oedipus mother Annabel (Angela Lansbury), and his sixteen-year-old brother Clinton (Brandon deWilde).
The story follows Clinton, who idolizes Berry-Berry but soon finds out his brother's darker side during the many times he has to bail Berry-Berry out of jail. Clinton is in love with a family friend, Echo O'Brien (Saint), and is forced to realize the type of person his brother is when Berry-Berry tragically sets his sights on Echo.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Eva Marie Saint | Echo O'Brien |
| Warren Beatty | Berry-Berry Willart |
| Karl Malden | Ralph Willart |
| Angela Lansbury | Annabel Willart |
| Brandon deWilde | Clinton Willart |
| Constance Ford | Mrs. Mandel |
| Albert Paulsen | Capt. Ramirez |
Home media
Video
Warner Home Video released the film on Region 1 DVD as part of its "Archive Collection" on June 22, 2009.
Soundtrack
Its score had music composed and conducted by Alex North, whose other scores include Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963).
North's score was released for the first time on CD in April 2003, on the Film Score Monthly (FSM) label in association with Turner Classic Movies Music, as FSM0606, a limited-release of 3,000, along with North's suite for the film The Outrage (1964), directed by Martin Ritt. FSM described North's soundtrack as a "poignant, sweetly jazzy score...full of hushed, haunting textures, with lovely themes drawing the pained connections between the characters, delicately balanced between love and pain".[2]
See also
References
- ^ Database (undated). "All Fall Down". Cannes Film Festival. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3167/year/1962.html. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
- ^ Database (undated). "All Fall Down/The Outrage (1962/1964)". Film Score Monthly. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
External links
- All Fall Down at AllRovi
- All Fall Down at the Internet Movie Database
- All Fall Down at the TCM Movie Database
- All Fall Down (DVD) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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