O roteiro é, na melhor das hipóteses, medíocre, mas a direção sombria de Preminger, a música-tema e as atuações de Webb e Price transformam este filme em um marco importante do nascente noir.
Laura (1944)
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Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 43
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A classic noirish mystery with a consummate ensemble of actors. Dana Andrews adroitly plays the detective who delves into the murder of the stunningly beautiful Laura, with whom it seems everyone, including the detective himself, is in... A classic noirish mystery with a consummate ensemble of actors. Dana Andrews adroitly plays the detective who delves into the murder of the stunningly beautiful Laura, with whom it seems everyone, including the detective himself, is in love. But Webb steals the show as the titular ingenue's creepily elegant social mentor, Waldo Lydecker. Based on the novel by Vera Caspary. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director. Academy Awards: Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography. [More]
Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, James Flavin, Clyde Fillmore, Ralph Dunn, Grant Mitchell, Kathleen Howard, Dutch Schlickenmeyer, Harry Strang, Lane Chandler, Frank La Rue
Director: Otto Preminger
Director: Otto Preminger
Screenwriter: Jay Dratler, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Samuel Hoffenstein, Ring Lardner, Jerry Cady
Story: Vera Caspary
Producer: Otto Preminger
Composer: David Raksin
DVD Info
Release:
Nov 4, 2003
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Stereo - English
- Mono - English
- Mono - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scene
- Alternate Ending
- Audio Commentary - 1. David Raskin - Composer & Janine Basinger - Wesleyan University Film Professor
- 2. Rudy Behlmer - Film Historian
- Documentaries - 1. GENE TIERNEY: A SHATTERED PORTRAIT
- 2. VINCENT PRICE: THE VERSATILE VILLAIN
- Theatrical Trailer
Reviews for Laura
Less a crime film than a study in levels of obsession, Laura is one of those classic works that leave their subject matter behind and live on the strength of their seductive style.
It is the sleekest of murder mysteries, and ahead of its time -- not least in having a gay suitor for Laura, and possibly two.
Gene Tierney makes an appealing figure as the art executive and Vincent Price is convincing as a weak-willed ne'er-do-well.
The plot is deliberately perfunctory, the people deliciously perverse, and the mise-en-scène radical.
A classic noir romance where all of the cinematic elements fit together perfectly.
Just watching Clifton Webb's deliciously nasty performance, as the effete critic and Laura's mentor, delivering the film's best lines, is worth the price of admission
This kooky film noir is so beautifully directed by Otto Preminger that all its protruding elements seem to slide delicately and accurately into place.
At times, the plotting takes leaps that the film’s 87-minute run doesn’t adequately support; but overall this is a gem.
The story is a good whodunnit, although it probably isn't half as clever as a mystery as it is a character study.
A masterfully complex -- and frequently campy -- portrait of all-consuming romantic self-delusion.
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