Niagara
starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
directed by: Henry Hathaway
directed by: Henry Hathaway
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543261056
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 12095
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1953
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Set against the dramatic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Marilyn Monroe portrays Rose, a femme fatale possessing two of the most powerful weapons: an erotic body and an evil mind. Planning to murder her troubled husband (Joseph Cotton), rose first uses her double edged sword to drive him t the brink of total insanity. Then she seductively torments a series of stranger while her mysterious lover waits in the shadows. Vastily different from her often comedic roles. Marilyn's classic dramatic performance as this diabolical and scheming woman is at once fascination and frightening, painting a powerful portrait of human sexuality and passion.
Amazon.com essential video:
A neatly enjoyable thriller in the pseudo-Hitchcock mode, Niagara offers great fun on a variety of levels. It has film noir themes (albeit in Technicolor), oodles of location shooting, and Freudian symbolism run amok. And, of course, it has Marilyn Monroe as an unbelievably ripe femme fatale: married to unstable hubby Joseph Cotten and stuck in a cabin at Niagara Falls, she plots a watery escape. Jean Peters (a future Mrs. Howard Hughes) and froggy husband Casey Adams are dragged into the intrigue during their delayed honeymoon. Veteran open-air director Henry Hathaway squeezes the most out of the spectacular scenery and the nail-biting climax, slowing down only for traveloguey interludes; the dialogue, pretty racy for 1953, comes from the civilized pen of producer-writer Charles Brackett (Billy Wilder's longtime partner). The baby-doll murmuring and lazy lounging in motel bed sheets is, well, all Marilyn. --Robert Horton
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- 'Retains an Undiminished Popularity Throughout the Years'Henry Hathaway's 'Niagara' captures the the feel of a really bad vacation. A vacation with someone ... Read More
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- "Barrel (over the Falls) O' Fun"This is a wonderfully suspenseful movie, shot with the grandeur of Niagra Falls as a backdrop--along ... Read More
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- Not bad, and with a strange, artificial creation of breasts, lipstick and sleepy eyelids to look atNiagara, in my view, is a second-rate A movie struggling with only partial success to be a first-rate ... Read More
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- Worth Watching Again and Again!Filmed in beautiful technicolor, this thriller is like a Hickcock movie without his profile to find. ... Read More
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- Above average thrillerThis is a fairly good thriller, despite the flaws in the plot and despite some atrocious acting, for which ... Read More
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