Laura
Summary:
This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Oscar for his efforts). At the outset of the film, it is established that the ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Gene Tierney - (Laura Hunt)
Dana Andrews - (Mark McPherson)
Clifton Webb - (Waldo Lydecker)
Vincent Price - (Shelby Carpenter)
Judith Anderson - (Ann Treadwell)
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Review:
With its collection of decadent New Yorkers embroiled in a murder mystery, Otto Preminger's hit Laura (1944) stands as an early, elegantly crafted film noir. Preminger's low-key approach to a story of lethal obsession allows the suggestions of sexual deviance emanating from Clifton Webb's epicene critic Lydecker, Dana Andrews's cynic... Continue >>
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