Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release Year: 1944
Country: USA
Runtime: 88
Rating: 7.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Otto PremingerRouben Mamoulian
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!

Writing by: Vera Caspary - (novel)
Jay Dratler - (screenplay) and
Samuel Hoffenstein - (screenplay) and
Elizabeth Reinhardt - (screenplay) (as Betty Reinhardt)
Ring Lardner Jr. - uncredited

Produced by: Otto Preminger - producer

Cast: Gene Tierney - Laura Hunt
Dana Andrews - Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Clifton Webb - Waldo Lydecker
Vincent Price - Shelby Carpenter
Judith Anderson - Mrs. Ann Treadwell
Grant Mitchell - Lancaster Corey (scenes deleted)
Dorothy Adams - Bessie Clary, Lauras Maid (uncredited)
Terry Adams - Woman (uncredited)
Lane Chandler - Detective (uncredited)
Dorothy Christy - Woman (uncredited)
James Conaty - Party Guest (uncredited)

Music: David Raksin
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Plot Outline: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder hes investigating.
Plot: Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The Greek Chorus does the "When Youre Smiling (The Whole World Smiles At You)" song-and-dance production number over half the credits.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: In at least one shot of Waldo sitting in his bathtub, he can be seen wearing a pair of checkered swimming trunks.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The film was begun by Rouben Mamoulian, but Otto Preminger, who initiated the project as producer and took over the direction, brought on a new cameraman and scrapped all of Mamoulians footage.
• The character of Waldo Lydecker appears to be based on the columnist, broadcaster, and "New Yorker" theater critic Alexander Woollcott, a famous wit who, like Waldo, was fascinated by murder. Woollcott always dined at the Algonquin Hotel, where Laura first approaches Waldo.
• Darryl F. Zanuck was opposed to casting Clifton Webb because of his known homosexuality, but Preminger prevailed and the 54-year-old Webb, making his first screen appearance since the silent era, was nominated for an Oscar.

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