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Laura (1944)

Director: Otto Preminger

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From Time Out Film Guide

Not just another noir classic of '44, Laura almost succeeds in pulling the screen apart at the seams, if only to stitch it together again in a visibly frantic finale. The narrator's a critic, the cop a would-be necrophiliac, and the femme fatale a faceless corpse... or are they? Less investigative thriller than an investigation of that genre's conventions - voyeurism (looking at, and for, Laura), a search for solutions (not just whodunit but whodunwhat), and the race against time (clues and clocks, fantasies and flashbacks) - the plot is deliberately perfunctory, the people deliciously perverse, and the mise-en-scène radical. (From the novel by Vera Caspary.

Author: PK 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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  • JJG59 said...
    Posted on Jul 08 2007 20:40 Movie making at its best. Not a weak link in the casting this is a Gem. Tierney ,Andrews, Webb, Price, Avnderson. Film noir for the thinking man. Is it real or a dream
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Laura

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Director: Otto Preminger

Producer: Otto Preminger

Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams, James Flavin full cast

Duration: 88 mins

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