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November 1944 (USA)
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The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!
Plot:
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 1 win
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4 nominations
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Review: The Perfect Sleep
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Laura And Her Curious Friends
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Gene Tierney | ... | Laura Hunt |
 | Dana Andrews | ... | Det. Lt. Mark McPherson |
 | Clifton Webb | ... | Waldo Lydecker |
 | Vincent Price | ... | Shelby Carpenter |
| Judith Anderson | ... | Mrs. Ann Treadwell |
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| Grant Mitchell | ... | Lancaster Corey (scenes deleted) |
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88 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Portugal:M/12 |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
South Korea:15 (2004) |
Finland:S |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video re-rating) (2005) |
UK:U (video rating) (1988) |
USA:Approved (PCA #10088)
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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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Revealing mistakes: When Lydecker gets out of his tub and puts on his robe, the seat of the robe is already wet, suggesting that this was not the first take of this scene.
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Quotes:
Waldo Lydecker:
I shall never forget the weekend Laura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection. I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York... I had just begun Laura's story when another of those detectives came to see me. I had him wait.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: An Eye for an Eye (#2.17)" (2005)
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Soundtrack:
You Go to My Head
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Laura Hunt has been murdered in a most grisly way, a shotgun blast to the face as she answered her apartment door. Dana Andrews as Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case and he's got a good list of suspects to work from in this up close and personal murder.
Laura Hunt hung out with some real characters. Dana Andrews has a good group to choose from. There's Vincent Price who was to marry Laura, a worthless playboy who spends his life as a permanent party guest. There's Clifton Webb as the epicene critic and noted wit who was a kind of sponsor for Laura into society. There's Judith Anderson as Laura's sophisticated aunt who has a yen for Price. There's even Dorothy Adams as Bessie, Laura's lesbian maid who is carrying a titanic torch for her ex-employer.
Andrews very patiently and methodically goes through the suspects. In his way he's as officious and annoying as Lieutenant Columbo on television. But he does get to the truth. Of course there's one very big surprise for him during the course of the investigation.
Gene Tierney is Laura and she was a beauty in her day. Man or woman, who wouldn't be crushing out on her. This film was the first one that got Dana Andrews any real notice from the critics. And of course Clifton Webb made a screen debut in this after a long career on Broadway. Webb got an Oscar nomination for his role of Waldo Lydecker as a Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way.
David Raksin's musical theme for this film is one of the great ones ever done for the cinema. So popular did it prove that Johnny Mercer wrote a lyric for it after the film came out. At the time people like Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes and a host of others rushed to record it.
I guess you could classify Laura as a kind of sophisticated noir police drama. It's dialog will leave you begging for more. It's not much in the way of mystery because about a third of the way through you will realize at the same time Andrews does who the murderer is, maybe even before Andrews does. That doesn't matter though because Laura is entertaining every step of the way.