Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel (1945) is a film noir from Otto Preminger you can watch online on iFILM. Broke and drifting, Eric Stanton gets put off a bus in a dead-end California town because he can't cover the rest of the fare.

At the local diner Eric (Dana Andrews) falls hard for waitress Stella (Linda Darnell), but she only has eyes for men with money. So he cooks up a cold scheme: court the quiet, well-off June Mills (Alice Faye) and get at her savings. The plan starts to unravel the moment murder slips into the love triangle.

Preminger shot this right after Laura, and the same noir instincts run through it: Joseph LaShelle's high-contrast camerawork, small-town respectability hiding real rot, a lead you pity and despise at once. For anyone who loves 1940s noir where a femme fatale and a weak man drag each other under, it's an easy pick. Stream Fallen Angel (1945) online on iFILM.