Wonderful Technicolor for one of the best known and essential melodramas in the history of cinema. The beautiful Tierney, who had just dazzled in the masterful "Laura" (1944), changes register in this captivating adaptation of the novel by Ben Ames Williams, declared by Scorsese as one of his favorite films of all time.
Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), a young writer, meets Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) on a train, a beautiful woman whom he marries a few days later. Life seems to smile at them, but Ellen is so possessive and her jealousy is so sick that she is not willing to share Richard with anyone; Both friends and family of hers represent a threat to her that she will try to get rid of, causing the misfortune of those around them.
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
110 minutes
United States
Direction: John M Stahl
Script: Jo Swerling.
Novel: Ben Ames-Williams
Music Alfred Newman
Photography Leon Shamroy
Distribution: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Gene Lockhart, Reed Hadley, Darryl Hickman, Chill Wills Companies: 20th Century Fox
Gender Drama. Intrigue. Film noir | Melodrama. Jealousy
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