Laura (1944 film)
1944
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Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. This demented relationship drama by John M Stahl, starring the golden era actress Gene Tierney, is the original Fatal Attraction but better, deeper and darker...
- (68)
- Gene Tierney
- John M. Stahl
- Crime, Drama
Leave Her to Heaven is a well-done picture and rates as good screen entertainment. Full Review | Sep 29, 2021. Marcy Townsley Austin American-Statesman. It's a bright, beautiful, shiny...
Leave Her to Heaven: Directed by John M. Stahl. With Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price. A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
- (15K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- John M. Stahl
- 1946-01
"Leave Her to Heaven" is a melodrama that tells the story of an obsessive female fatale with a destructive jealousy of her husband and capable to plan her own death to destroy the life of her stepsister. Gene Tierney has a fantastic performance and was nominated in 1946 to the Oscar of best actress in a leading role.
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 85% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 65 reviews. The consensus summarizes: "Leave Her to Heaven suffers from a surfeit of unlikable characters, but the solid cast – led by an outstanding Gene Tierney – makes it hard to turn away." [19]
Gene Tierney really is the highlight of the film. Her performance is so nuanced and wholly believable. She imbues Ellen with such desperation and an underlying, calculated sense of evil that makes her one of the strongest characters to come out of Classical Hollywood.
Mar 24, 2020 · The doomed romance at the center of the movie is in fact launched by the bare, shameless gaze of Ellen Berent (Tierney), whose eyes land on our hero, the novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), seated across from her in a train’s club car.
