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- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) In director Lewis Milestone's sordid, noirish, B/W melodrama, it told about three childhood friends who were brought together 18 years later for a climactic denouement regarding a murderous and guilty secret from the past, in the small Pennsylvania town of Iverstown (pronounced "Iverston").
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American noir tragedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott. Kirk Douglas appears in his film debut.
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Mar 18, 2016 · The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is melodrama with all the stops pulled out. A tale of greed, lust, revenge and psychopathic murder, it is – in the words of Noël Simsolo – “worthy of the worst libretto in Italian opera”. 1 This may be a tad unfair to Italian opera.
Lewis Milestone's "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" is an overheated melodrama of small town corruption full of rotten characters and Barbara is the most rotten of all with hubbie Kirk Douglas not far behind.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas. A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- Lewis Milestone
A gripping film noir, all the more effective for being staged by Milestone as a steamy romantic melodrama. Full Review | Feb 9, 2006
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) In director Lewis Milestone's sordid, noirish, B/W melodrama, it told about three childhood friends who were brought together 18 years later for a climactic denouement regarding a murderous and guilty secret from the past, in the small Pennsylvania town of Iverstown (pronounced "Iverston").
Directed by Lewis Milestone. Fate drew them together… and only murder could part them! Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married.
