Laura (1944)
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 57 | Rotten: 0
A psychologically complex portrait of obsession, Laura is also a deliciously well-crafted murder mystery.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0
A psychologically complex portrait of obsession, Laura is also a deliciously well-crafted murder mystery.
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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 title character, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), has been murdered. Tough New York detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews)
Mar 15, 2005
20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Gene Tierney
Laura Hunt -
Dana Andrews
Mark McPherson -
Clifton Webb
Waldo Lydecker -
Vincent Price
Shelby Carpenter -
Judith Anderson
Ann Treadwell -
Dorothy Adams
Bessie Clary -
James Flavin
McAvity -
Clyde Fillmore
Bullitt -
Ralph Dunn
Fred Callahan -
Grant Mitchell
Corey -
Kathleen Howard
Louise -
Dutch Schlickenmeyer
Detective -
Harry Strang
Detective -
Lane Chandler
Detective -
Terry Adams
Man -
Dorothy Christy
Woman -
Jean Fenwick
Woman -
Lee Tung Foo
Servant -
William Forrest
Man -
Frances Gladwin
Woman -
Beatrice Gray
Woman -
Cy Kendall
Inspector -
Frank LaRue
Hairdresser -
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Kay Linaker
Girl -
Forbes Murray
Man -
Jane Nigh
Secretary -
Aileen Pringle
Woman -
Cyril Ring
Man -
Cara Williams
Girl -
John Dexter
Jacoby -
Buster Miles
Office Boy -
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All Critics (58) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (0) | DVD (22)
Few movies make you feel dirtier, and so perversely grateful for the pleasure.
A highly polished and debonair whodunit.
Top CriticLess a crime film than a study in levels of obsession, Laura is one of those classic works that leave their subject matter behind and live on the strength of their seductive style.
A hypnotic and deathlessly interpretable experience.
Gene Tierney makes an appealing figure as the art executive and Vincent Price is convincing as a weak-willed ne'er-do-well.
The plot is deliberately perfunctory, the people deliciously perverse, and the mise-en-scène radical.
Top CriticPreminger deals in facades, with how perception cheats us, right down to the ideal image of Laura as a portrait. (Cinémathèque Annotations on Film)
This is an exquisite transfer of one of cinema's most beloved noirs, with a modest offering of special features that focus on the film's culturally significant history.
Masterpiece: with time, Preminger's second film has become richer in texture and deeper, more ambiguous in meaning than most noirs of the 1940s.
Preminger made darker, more characteristically noir films than this, but his only movie that's as good, or perhaps better, is Anatomy of a Murder.
Will leave you drunk with delight.
The dialogue is stinging and the performances to be savoured in a haunting study of romantic obsession that deserves its return to the big screen.
Laura is still every bit as gripping in 2012.
A thrilling, absorbing and original example of the genre; it's also beautifully shot, pure escapist entertainment.
Not only one of Preminger's greatest, but one of the great noirs.
OK, the plot verges on absurdity - but who cares?
This interesting film noir has more working for its final half than in its first.
Expertly paced, gripping, and dripping with sensuality, Otto Preminger's Laura has hardly aged a day.
O roteiro é, na melhor das hipóteses, medíocre, mas a direção sombria de Preminger, a música-tema e as atuações de Webb e Price transformam este filme em um marco importante do nascente noir.
Great suspense.
Audience Reviews for Laura
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- Waldo Lydecker: Young woman, either you have been raised in some incredible rustic community where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from the common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct.
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- Mark McPherson: A dame from Washington Heights got a fox fur out of me once...
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- Waldo Lydecker: Haven't you heard of science's newest triumph, the doorbell?
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- Waldo Lydecker: "I'm not kind. I'm vicious. It's the secret of my charm."
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- Waldo Lydecker: In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
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Foreign Titles
- Laura (1944) (DE)
- Laura (UK)
