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...three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left...
...night Maria's friends called the Mexico City police to No. 66. Inside, amid the dust of 50 years, were fine paintings and massive mahogany furniture. Also in the house were the bruised bodies of Angel and Miguel. Investigating the deaths, the police found the richest miser's hoard in their memory: $4,000,000 in deeds, bank notes and jewels, stuffed in drawers and between bedsprings...
Maria said that robbers killed Angel and Miguel. Why, then, asked the police, had the brigands left bags of jewels in the parlor? The press asked uglier questions, dug up the report that Brother Angel had once gone to the Pope in Rome for permission to marry his sister...
...Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...
...mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...