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Movie
All Fall Down
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Warren Beatty
- Eva Marie Saint
- Karl Malden
- Angela Lansbury
- Brandon de Wilde
- Constance Ford
- Barbara Baxley
- Evans Evans
- Jennifer Howard
- Madame Spivy
- Albert Paulsen
- Henry Kulky
- Colette Jackson
- Paul Bryar
- Carol Kelly
- Robert Sorrells
- Eva Marie
- Dorothy Jeakins
- William Inge
- Lionel Lindon
- George R. Nelson
- Preston Ames
- Ethel Winant
- Fredric Steinkamp
- George W. Davis