Marilyn Monroe always wanted to be a straight-dramatic actress. She succeeded in this 1953 film.
Unhappily married to Joseph Cotten, the two are at the famous falls where Monroe plots with her lover to kill Cotten.
Jean Peters and Richard Allan (who also went under the name of Max Showalter) are a married couple who befriend the two.
They try to comfort Monroe when they all think that Cotten is dead. Monroe soon realizes that the plot has gone awry and that her lover is instead dead. Cotten has gone totally insane by her actions and plots her demise. The chilling scene where Monroe meets her end is done extremely well as the chimes ring. The latter was supposed to signify the death of Cotten by her lover.
Cotten fleeing with Jean Peters, in the boat by the Falls, is done in an exciting, ambitious way. The end is marvelously staged. ***
Unhappily married to Joseph Cotten, the two are at the famous falls where Monroe plots with her lover to kill Cotten.
Jean Peters and Richard Allan (who also went under the name of Max Showalter) are a married couple who befriend the two.
They try to comfort Monroe when they all think that Cotten is dead. Monroe soon realizes that the plot has gone awry and that her lover is instead dead. Cotten has gone totally insane by her actions and plots her demise. The chilling scene where Monroe meets her end is done extremely well as the chimes ring. The latter was supposed to signify the death of Cotten by her lover.
Cotten fleeing with Jean Peters, in the boat by the Falls, is done in an exciting, ambitious way. The end is marvelously staged. ***