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Jan 30, 2014 · by Despina Veneti The famous - at least among noir fans - alternate ending of LAURA (1944) has been a matter of confusion for many years. Although that matter was beautifully cleared for its biggest part in the September 1978 special PREMINGER issue of the French magazine L’AVANT-SCENE (in an article written by Jacques Lourcelles,….
Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel Laura by Vera Caspary. Laura received five nominations for the Academy ...
Aug 2, 2020 · Laura Movie 1944 – Film noir style witty dialogue Turn up your volume and turn on the subtitles if needed when watching this movie because it’s got great dialogue. Most of the witty lines comes from Waldo Lydecker, but Mark Mcpherson has got some good one of her own, and even Judith Anderson chimes in few here and there.
Oct 20, 2024 · Otto Preminger's 1944 film noir Laura, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, is an iconic, bold entry for the genre. ... "Goodbye, Laura. Goodbye, my love." Zanuck, unhappy with this ending ...
By Sven Mikulec It’s a crying shame Otto Preminger never received the adequate recognition from the Academy. The Austria-Hungarian born filmmaker enjoyed a fruitful career, continually displaying outstanding craft and prowess. His 1944 film noir Laura is not only exceptionally put together, but is a film of cultural and historical significance for American cinema.
Apr 25, 2012 · With time, Otto Preminger’s “Laura” gets richer in texture, deeper in meaning, and more problematic than most noir films of the 1940s. An intense meditation on the nature of love and control, “Laura” tackles such taboo issues as voyeurism, fetishism, and necrophilia, a whole decade before Hitchcock’s masterpiece, “Vertigo,” which bears some thematic resemblance to the 1944 film ...
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Laura (1944) is one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, and witty classic film noirs ever made with an ensemble cast of characters. Producer Otto Preminger ultimately ended up directing the film, after filming was begun by Rouben Mamoulian and his cinematographer Lucien Ballard. Preminger's film falls under the category of romantic ...
