Editing John Frankenheimer (section)

===''All Fall Down'' (1962)===

The [[coming of age]] film [[All Fall Down (1962 film)|''All Fall Down'']] was both filmed and released while Frankenheimer's ''[[Birdman of Alcatraz (film)|Birdman of Alcatraz]]'' (1962) was in post-production and his ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962) was in pre-production.<ref>Pratley, 1969 p. 80: Frankenheimer explains the chronology here.<br>Stafford, 2003 TCM: "John Houseman and Frankenheimer eagerly agreed to do it in-between post-production on ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' and preparation for ''The Manchurian Candidate''."</ref><ref>Baxter, 2002: "Birdman of Alcatraz was delayed when the first section had to be shortened and reshot, and, in the interim, Frankenheimer made the hothouse All Fall Down."</ref>

The picture was scripted by [[William Inge]], who also wrote ''[[Splendor in the Grass]]'' (1961) and concerns character Berry-Berry ([[Warren Beatty]]), an emotionally irresponsible hustler, and his adoring younger brother Clinton ([[Brandon deWilde]]), to whom Berry-Berry appears as a romantic [[Byronic hero|Byronesque]] figure. The older brother's cruel treatment of Echo O'Brien ([[Eva Marie Saint]]), his lover who becomes pregnant, disabuses the naive Clinton of Berry-Berry's perfection. His anguished insight permits Clinton to achieve emotional maturity and independence.<ref>Higham, 1973 p. 294-295: "...a beautifully made film about adolescence…the boy reaches manhood by way of anguish…concerned with the theme of the outsider."<br>Barson, 2021: ''All Fall Down''  "starred Warren Beatty as a callous womanizer whose adoring younger brother (Brandon deWilde) gradually comes to despise him."</ref><ref>Baxter, 2002: "Frankenheimer made the hothouse All Fall Down, with Warren Beatty as an archetypal, Frankenheimer anti-hero drifter."</ref><ref>Walsh, 2002 WSWS: " "All Fall Down is a fairly silly work...Warren Beatty plays the impossibly named Berry-Berry Willart, a ne'er-do-well son of a quarrelsome middle class Cleveland couple...His abuse of a family friend, Echo O'Brien (Eva Marie Saint), leads to her death and the disillusionment of Berry-Berry's younger brother."</ref> Film critic [[David Walsh (writer)|David Walsh]] comments:

{{blockquote |"''All Fall Down'' is vaguely moralistic and conformist, and the scenes of the Beatty character's comeuppance contrived in the extreme. ''All Fall Down'' is saved by the portrayals of Eva Marie Saint, quiet and gracious, as the unfortunate Echo, and Angela Lansbury, extravagant and outlandish, as Berry-Berry's mother, within whom incestuous fires appear to blaze. Critics have noted that Annabell Willart (Lansbury) was the first of three desperately controlling mothers in Frankenheimer's films of 1962: the other two played by [[Thelma Ritter]] in ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' (1962) and Lansbury again in ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1961). In all three films, the father is either weak or absent."<ref>Walsh, 2002. WSWS</ref>}}