THE FALLEN SPARROW

DIRECTED BY RICHARD WALLACE
PRODUCED BY ROBERT FELLOWS
MUSIC BY ROY WEBB
RKO RADIO PICTURES

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Information from IMDb

Plot Summary
A former Spanish Civil War prisoner, John McKittrick arrives in New Yor to find the truth behind the death of his friend Louie Lepetino. He finds himself being chased by Nazi agents
who want an item he has brought back from Spain and cannot give up.
When another of his friends is murdered, McKittrick realizes
that he cannot trust anyone around him - not anyone.
Written by Jim Beaver

Full Cast
John Garfield .... John 'Kit' McKittrick
Maureen O'Hara .... Toni Donne
Walter Slezak .... Dr. Christian Skaas
Patricia Morison .... Barby Taviton
Martha O'Driscoll .... Whitney 'The Imp' Parker
Bruce Edwards .... Ab Parker
John Banner .... Anton
John Miljan .... Inspector 'Toby' Tobin
Hugh Beaumont .... Otto Skaas
Bobby Barber .... Waiter (uncredited)
Symona Boniface .... Guest (uncredited)
Patti Brill .... Bit (uncredited)
Jack Carr .... Danny - Cab Driver (uncredited)
André Charlot .... Pete (uncredited)
James Conaty .... Nightclub Dance Extra (uncredited)
William Edmunds .... Papa Lepetino (uncredited)
Fely Franquelli .... Gypsy Dancer (uncredited)
Erford Gage .... Roman - Ab's Butler (uncredited)
Rosina Galli .... Mama Lepetino (uncredited)
Bud Geary .... First Cab Driver (uncredited)
Sam Goldenberg .... Prince François de Namur (uncredited)
Rita Gould .... Dot (uncredited)
Babe Green .... G-Man (uncredited)
Mary Halsey .... Bit (uncredited)
Sam Harris .... Nightclub Table/Dance Extra (uncredited)
Joe King .... Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Mike Lally .... Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Margaret Landry .... Bit (uncredited)
Stella LeSaint .... Woman in Street (uncredited)
George Lloyd .... Sergeant Moore (uncredited)
Charles Marsh .... Bartender (uncredited)
Eric Mayne .... Party Guest (uncredited)
Billy Mitchell .... Porter (uncredited)
William J. O'Brien .... Waiter (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor .... Coroner (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva .... Jake (uncredited)
Lee Phelps .... Policeman (uncredited)
Stanley Price .... Caterer (uncredited)
Al Rhein .... Man (uncredited)
Cyril Ring .... Henry - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell .... Waiter (uncredited)
Edgar Sherrod .... Butler (uncredited)
George Sherwood .... G-Man (uncredited)
Margie Stewart .... Bit (uncredited)
Eric Wilton .... Butler (uncredited)
Jane Woodworth .... Bit (uncredited)

Writing Credits
Dorothy B. Hughes (novel)
Warren Duff (screenplay)

Cinematography
Nicholas Musuraca

Trivia
Many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Russell Wade (Ab Hamilton), Russ Powell (Priest), 'James Farley' (Bartender), Charles Lung (Carlo), Martin Faust (Chef at Carlo's Cafe), Lillian West (Receptionist), Miles Mander (Dr. Gudmundson) and Edith Evanson (Nurse). A modern source lists Russell Wade as a "Flower Seller", but there were no flower sellers in the film.

Martha O'Driscoll is listed in the records as "Whitney Hamilton," but she is called Whitney Parker (Ab Parker's cousin) in the film.

"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 14, 1944 with Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slezak reprising their film roles.

Memorable Quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035860/quotes)

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The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 spy film starring
John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slezak.
It was based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes.
An American returns home to find out who murdered his friend.

Maureen stars as Toni Donne,
in this, anti-nazi film.
Now classed as film noir.

Crticised, for being 'over-the top' anti-nazi.

Produced by Robert Fellows,
Duke's friend and associate.

User Review

Author: bmacv from Western New York
Hollywood fought World War II on many fronts: most obviously, in its documentaries and war dramas; in genre series coopted for the war effort (such as Sherlock Holmes programmers); and in thrillers dedicated to smoking out the Fifth Column at home (The House on Ninety-Second Street). There was also a more complicated, ideologically tinged kind of movie, not simply anti-Nazi but more broadly `anti-Fascist' (and defiantly leftist). Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine was one; The Fallen Sparrow was another.

John Garfield (who else?) survived torture while fighting for the anti-Franco forces in the Spanish Civil War, but it took its toll; he recuperated in a sanitarium in the Southwest. Upon returning to New York – where a war buddy has met death by defenestration from a penthouse party – he finds some of his friends traveling in the same circles as vaguely sinister Europeans and fly-specked aristocrats – Germans, Italians, Spaniards – who take a perverse interest in him. Among them is Maureen O'Hara (in a dark, forties updo), who runs hot and cold when it comes to his advances.

The dense plot of The Fallen Sparrow collapses into a noirish muddle. Multiple heavies purr in a babel of as many stage accents (Hugh Beaumont's Prussian the most amusing of them). Walter Slezak plays a mittel-European professor whose passion seems to be the aesthetics of torture, and whose limp summons up nightmares for Garfield. There are also family crests dating from at least the Borgias (whose speciality was goblets of poisoned wine), a senile old curmudgeon who believes he'll be restored to the throne of France, and a tattered standard Garfield has rescued from Spain, which becomes this film's black bird....

Following all these threads require rapt attention, but who would be willing to devote anything less to the fight against Fascism? The film borrows from such immediate predecessors in the nascent noir cycle as The Maltese Falcon (especially the ending) and The Glass Key. It cooks up plenty of atmosphere but lacks vital clarity. It's not without interest – the attention to the psychological aftermath of torture is a bold and courageous stroke – but with its political passions looking quaint, if not naive, this overheated melodrama leaves a scorched aftertaste.

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Suspense film with John Garfield chased by Nazi agents. Maureen has a role against type ...

For complete the original trailer, here's a short video (http://www.archive-host.com/video.php?id=444ddd89c436986a9ef06164f38a2394e85c2 455.mp4)

Good reading!

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