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The Fallen Idol is overshadowed by Reed and Greene's The Third Man but is in many ways a precursor for the later film, not least in visual terms.

Tension tightens as the black leathered storm troopers move ever closer. It would help if their motive was understandable and the plot more transparent.

Even if almost all of Johnny's journey into darkness takes place on foot, only his first steps are truly pedestrian.

The innate absurdity of the secret agent’s life, with all its paranoia and double standards, has rarely been so elegantly and mercilessly skewered.

A well-mounted piece of filmmaking.

Lime is one of the cinema’s greatest baddies.

The True Glory is an interesting and invaluable record, but its relentless progress towards an inevitable end and the repetitive sameness of much of the footage eventually begins to pall.