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Bookmark this pageThe Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Director: Lewis Milestone
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From Time Out Film Guide
Superb performance by Stanwyck (as coldly calculating as she was in Double Indemnity) as the apex of a traumatic triangle comprising the two men who (maybe) saw her club her wealthy aunt to death when they were children. Now a tycoon in her own right, bonded to one of the witnesses (Douglas) in a guilt-ridden marriage, she finds the other (Heflin) resurfacing in her life as both promise of escape and threat to security - and the stagnant waters begin to stir again with murderous crosscurrents of fear and desire. A gripping film noir, all the more effective for being staged by Milestone as a steamy romantic melodrama.Author: TM
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- Nikki561 said...
- Posted on Nov 08 2010 02:54 A gripping melodrama from beginning to end. Barbara Stanwyck, Heflin and Douglas and Lisabeth Scott give a brilliant performance in this 1946 classic.
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Cast & crew
Director: Lewis Milestone
Producer: Hal B Wallis
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas, Lisabeth Scott, Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Frank Orth full cast
Genre(s): Film Noir
Duration: 117 mins
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