Laura

Starring: Tierney, Gene and Andrews, Dana

Product Description

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• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• Release Date: September 2015
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• Director: Preminger, Otto
• Starring: Tierney, Gene, Andrews, Dana
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Blu-ray
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

View this movie several times, and patterns start to show.

Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), a self-centered writer, is having his lunch interrupted by a young lady, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), who is soliciting his e-n-d-o-r-s-e-m-e-n-t of a pen. He takes her under his wing and grooms her for corporate greatness. Later, it looks like someone has bumped off Laura. Detective Lt. Mark McPherson is assigned to the case. Somewhere in the process of investigation, he seems to have fallen in love with the dead Laura and wants to buy her portrait. Can we figure out who did it before Mark figures it out? This movie is all that they say it is and then some. Naturally, it is not the book “Laura” by Vera Caspary. And due to media constraints, some things are implied. The characters do not match the book description. They could not get a good portrait of Gene Tierney for the picture of Laura, so they used a photograph and made it look like a portrait. I wonder where that photograph is today. First time viewing gives you the impression that Waldo Lydecker is a manipulative person. Yes, I know most of the characters are manipulative. But second time viewing, lo and behold, who manipulates Waldo from the very beginning and uses his connections to climb the corporate ladder? Then pretty much snubs him. It was interesting to see Vincent Price play a character (Shelby Carpenter) who is not in a horror movie. Look how confident Dana Andrews, as Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson, is in this movie. Also, notice his high-heeled shoes. See him as a completely different character in “In Harm's Way” (1965), as Admiral 'Blackjack' Broderick. Also directed by Otto Preminger.