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Carol Reed. Highest Rated: 100% The Fallen Idol (1948) Lowest Rated: 60% Kipps (1941) Birthday: Dec 30, 1906. Birthplace: Putney, London, England, UK. Reed began his film career in 1927 as an ...
Oct 21, 2009 · A decade later, Carol Reed’s leading man received an Oscar for his performance as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street. A major policy was introduced by the British government in regards to ...
"Once deemed a major British director, Sir Carol Reed was in fact a competent craftsman who hit his peak during a brief period at the end of the '40s with three consecutive literary adaptations. Even in his best work, however, his penchant for unusually angled shots and Expressionist lighting can seem studied and irrelevant."
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), and The Third Man (1949). He won the Palme d'Or for The Third Man and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carol Reed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene’s razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker’s dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.
The Fallen Idol was the first of three masterpieces to result from the legendary meeting of director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene, who together would also create The Third Man and Our Man in Havana. Elegantly balancing suspense and farce, this tale of the fraught relationship between a boy and the beloved butler he suspects of murder is a delightfully macabre thriller of the first order ...
During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives. Director Carol Reed Stars William Holden Sophia Loren Trevor Howard. 24. Our Man in Havana. 1959 1h 51m Not Rated.
