Laura (1944)

Regisseur:

Otto Preminger

Drehbuchautoren:

Vera Caspary (novel)
Jay Dratler (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

November 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Krimi | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romanze | Thriller

Werbezeile:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Femme Fatale | Obsessive Love | Atmospheric | Beautiful Woman | Investigator

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Too Talky For 'Noir,' But I Want To Like This

Besetzung

Gene Tierney	...	Laura Hunt
Dana Andrews	...	Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Clifton Webb	...	Waldo Lydecker
Vincent Price	...	Shelby Carpenter
Judith Anderson	...	Mrs. Ann Treadwell
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Grant Mitchell	...	Lancaster Corey (scenes deleted)

Alternativ:

Laura (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

88 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Portugal:M/12 | 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)

Firma:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Dies und das:

Ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in June 2008.

Pannen:

Filmfehler: In at least one shot of Waldo sitting in his bathtub, he can be seen wearing a pair of checkered swimming trunks.

Dialogzitate:

Waldo Lydecker: I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound (1995) (TV)

Soundtrack:

You Go to My Head

Too Talky For 'Noir,' But I Want To Like This

Since I saw this, I have watched thousands of films, including many film noirs (of which "Laura" is labeled). This was the first film noir I'd ever seen and, being relatively new to 1940s movies at the time, I thought the story was sooooo slow. I thought the film was way too boring and vastly overrated.....way too talky for a crime (film noir) movie. Actually, this is 'noir;' for lovers of soap operas/melodramas a lot more than it is for people who enjoy a good, manly crime movie.

Well, the first half hour was pretty good with great sarcastic dialog between "Waldo Lydecker" (Clifton Webb) and "Shelby Carpenter" (Vincent Price) but after that, they just kept talking, talking and talking. Yawn! I lost interest but stuck with it, even though it took me two days to finish it.

Dana Andrews' role as the policeman "Det. Lt. Mark McPherson," was really annoying, if I recall, because a cop simply wouldn't say and do some of the things he did in this film. His role looked so dated and downright ludicrous. However, I have seen so much of that sort of unrealistic police procedures in many other classic-era movies that I shouldn't let it ruin the film for me.

I say all of this because I do want to like this film and hope another viewing will change my mind. Anyway, I wouldn't mind because another look - now on DVD - at one of the true glamor woman of the '40s, Gene Tierney, wouldn't be a bad assignment!