Dana Andrews portrays "Eric Stanton," a man down on his luck who travels around trying to get by through charm and deception to secure meals and places to stay. He’s dropped off a Greyhound bus—the driver bore a striking resemblance to Ward Bond—in a quiet coastal town, where he goes to a diner to figure out how to reach San Francisco. However, his course is altered when he meets "Stella" (Linda Darnell), a waitress …

Fallen Angel, directed by Otto Preminger with cinematography from Joseph LaShelle—who had previously collaborated with him on Laura—features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Charles Bickford. Often considered a minor work in both film noir and Preminger’s own filmography (he even claimed to have forgotten making it), the movie is notable as Faye's final appearance as a major Hollywood star. Unhappy with h…

This week's Film Noir selection is Fallen Angel, a 1945 film directed by Otto Preminger. The movie features Dana Andrews (seen in Boomerang! (1947) and Laura (1944)), Charles Bickford from Brute Force (1947), Linda Darnell of Hangover Square (1945), Anne Revere who appeared in Secret Beyond the Door... (1948), and John Carradine, recognizable from Female Jungle (1954) and Bluebeard (1944). The film opens with a ve…