The Fallen Sparrow

The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 spy film starring John Garfield, Maureen OHara, Patricia Morison and Walter Slezak. It is based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. Its plot concerns an American who returns home to find out who murdered his friend.

When Kit goes to the police to find out what they know, Inspector Tobin John Miljan tells him it was suicide, but Kit knows better. After arranging to stay in the apartment of another friend, Ab Parker Bruce Edwards, he begins to make the acquaintance of the various guests at the party in which Louie made his fatal plunge. Among them are noted Norwegian historian and wheelchairusing refugee Dr. Christian Skaas Walter Slezak, his nephew Otto Hugh Beaumont, Kits old flame Barby Taviton Patricia Morison, who hosted the illfated party, and Toni Donne. Also present were singer Whitney Parker Martha ODriscoll, who is Abs cousin, and her pianoplaying accompanist Anton John Banner. Kit is shaken when Dr. Skaas discusses the superiority of modern methods of torture over those of the past it jibes too closely with what he endured.Kit does not know whom to trust, but is attracted to Toni, and she to him. However, it turns out that Toni was the only witness to Louies fall, raising Kits suspicions. Meanwhile, Kit repeatedly hears, or imagines he hears, the man with the limp, showing that he may not be fully recovered from his ordeal. ........

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