All Fall Down

All Fall Down (1962)

Male enough to attract a dozen women... not man enough to be faithful to one!

Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.

Date of release
1962-04-06
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama
Director
John Frankenheimer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: All Fall Down
  • Filmed in: Florida

All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film, adapted from the novel All Fall Down (1960) by James Leo Herlihy, who later wrote Midnight Cowboy (1965). John Frankenheimer directed and John Houseman produced. The screenplay was adapted 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 won the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

In his memoirs, producer John Houseman notes that All Fall Down was a film he "enjoyed making" and with which he was, "finally, reasonably satisfied." However, From the start, our most serious problem was young Mr. Beatty. With his angelic arrogance, his determination to emulate Marlon Brando and Jimmy Dean, and his half-baked, overzealous notions of "Method" acting, he succeeded in perplexing and antagonizing not only his fellow actors but our e…

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