All Fall Down (film)
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| Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
| Produced by | John Houseman |
| Screenplay by | William Inge |
| Based on |
All Fall Down by James Leo Herlihy |
| Starring |
Eva Marie Saint Warren Beatty Karl Malden Angela Lansbury Brandon deWilde Constance Ford Barbara Baxley Evans Evans Madame Spivy Albert Paulsen |
| Music by | Alex North |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Edited by | Fredric Steinkamp |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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110 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 from the novel by playwright William Inge 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 destructively manipulative 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.
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 adoring but controlling and manipulative mother, Annabel (Angela Lansbury), or his sixteen-year-old brother Clinton (Brandon deWilde).
The story follows Clinton, who idolizes Berry-Berry, despite having to bail him out of jail in Florida, and later accompanying Ralph to Western Union to wire bail money when Berry-Berry is arrested a second time for beating up a woman. Remarks by Ralph make it sound like this isn't the first time he's wired bail money for Berry-Berry.
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