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Kirk Douglas to Receive Publicists Lifetime Achievement Award at 50th Annual Luncheon, Film noir. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Scott was superb as the beautiful "good" girl this time...as she too would eventually play femme-fatales. Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder. Not as good as "Double Indemnity" but close. Then there's Martha, the mysterious center of the film.

Even at the end, the ambiguity is unresolved: how much is Martha the victim, how much the villain? A man needing money agrees to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins. Was this review helpful to you? We know who the killer is and the story then moves forward several years as Van Heflin (Sam) arrives back in Iverstown and hooks up with runaway Lizabeth Scott (Toni) for a night of passion. Leave a Comment / Uncategorized. This is a great old film,with some great actors,enjoyed . what a pity for such a classic picture : Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2020, exciting film noir watched by family in lockdown, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The plot had superb twists that had you glued to the screen to find out what really happened the night Martha and the two boys were involved in the aunt's death, as well as how the truth would affect them as adults. On the fateful night, all three are in the house when Martha, driven over the edge (her aunt both insults her dead father, a mill hand, and beats her kitten!) His weakness is inside. An old friend, Sam, comes back to seek help with a case where a man is falsely accused of thedeath of Martha's aunt years before on the night Same left. ... to go to the cinema these days but films like this bring back the real wonder of great storytelling, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2017.

Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Ruthless and domineering Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is married to an alcoholic district attorney (Kirk Douglas), her childhood companion who is the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt eighteen years earlier. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business. (1946). Douglas captures perfectly Walter's insecurity and helpless jealousy, his cowardly use of his power (through Martha's influence, he has become District Attorney), his lame attempts to project confidence, his dependence on alcohol to salve his humiliation. But by the end it's clear that Martha and Walter have become twins, warped by their shared guilt (they both took part in prosecuting an innocent man who was hanged for the murder), while Sam and Toni share a fundamental decency and the capacity to look ahead to a fresh start.Nice girl Toni is there to provide eye candy and a potential happy ending for Sam, but she gets a lot of screen time, too much in fact for her one-note character. Fans of Lizabeth Scott won't agree, but unless you find her particularly alluring, her scenes get a little tedious. What A Great Cast.Well Worth Watching, Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2020, I Just adore Barbara Stanwyck & With the Late Great Kirk Douglas, Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2018. He is just drifting through town and decides to look up old friend Kirk Douglas (Walter) who is now married to Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers). There is a strong affinity between Sam and Martha, both tough and poised and hard to read, while Toni and Walter are more vulnerable and obvious, driven by the simple motivation of love. War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. The low price is an indication and a warning - the sound also is not synchronised. This is not the authorized Paramount version. The Paramount Home Entertainment release I bought here at Amazon presents a near perfect copy of this movie but, beware, no extras at all. Bombastic music deafens each emotional climax; women go to sleep with their glossy masks of makeup intact; obvious back-projection and poorly staged action sequences make the film look like a staged play. A willful heiress is married to the local DA who is an alcoholic. The old now unavailable Paramount DVD is sharper than this "bluray". A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier. whacks her aunt with her own cane and sends her tumbling to her death at the foot of a grand staircase. The information on the box about the restoration is misleading. Crime. The scenes between Martha and Walter are the highlight of the film, saturated with a poisonous mixture of love and hate, tinged with sado-masochism ("Even pain at your hands…" Walter sighs when she puts iodine on his cut hand).

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