Laura

Pros: Dana Andrews, Production Values, Campy, Direction, One liners
Cons: Campy, unbelievable

Laura (1944) A release from the Fox Film Noir Collection, Laura is one of the 1940s crime dramas that is considered a staple of film noir collections, and rightly so. Unlike most noirs, which show seedy lower class characters in similar ...

Pros: Fine cast, intriguing screenplay, excellent production
Cons: None

I’ve been running through many of the classics lately and have been discovering a few treats. Under the label of “Fox Film Noir,” Laura (1944) with Gene Tierney was certainly an interesting prospect. In 2008 the AFI ranked it #4 in its ...

Pros: excellent love story with great Noir imagery
Cons: I wish Judith Anderson had more screen time

"Laura" as Directed by Otto Preminger in 1944 is one heck of a treat on this new DVD. It's a newly mastered print, and the DVD includes fine commentaries from Composer David Raksin and Film Professor Jeanine Basinger, and Film Historian Rudy Behlmer. ...

Pros: Andrews, Tierney, Webb, Price, Preminger(!) Suspense and dark romance aplenty runs rampant here, folks.
Cons: It's a rather uneasy melding of a classical mystery and noir, the latter predominating.

"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. For Laura's horrible death, I was...

Pros: Story, Cast, Laura is an early Noir Mystery
Cons: Intensity of dialog. A bit too much for modern "instant gratification" audiences.

LAURA - Preminger's 6th for 20th Century Fox, A Film Noir Classic Reviewer's Note: See the bibliography for resources used herein. I grew up with Preminger's Controversies and had been told what to think about the subject matters covered by ...

Pros: Perfect casting, Tierney is haunting in the title role, and the quotable one-liners keep coming.
Cons: None. Seriously.

Everybody's talking about Laura. But who - or what - is Laura? In the eyes of her admirers, ex-advertising stenographer Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is only the most beautiful woman they've ever laid eyes on. Molded into a status symbol by arrogant ...

Pros: Only the best "film-noir" ever made, is all....
Cons: Yeah, right........

This film was the high-water mark in the careers of several of its cast and crew. Oh, I know, all movies can be enjoyed completely "cold," as far as details about their principals, but I also believe they can be enjoyed even more when...

Pros: script, direction, cast, suspense
Cons: implausible events, campy

Laura is a highly entertaining murder mystery. Well directed and scripted, with several surprise plot twists, it rarely drags, and survives many improbable sequences.

Laura (Gene Tierney) is an attractive, successful young woman who has...

Pros: good plot twists, terrific music, lush photography
Cons: certain aspects of the principals' relationships could be explained better

Nearly fifty years after its release, "Laura" remains an intriguing and stylish murder mystery. Based on the novel by Vera Caspary, the film centers around New York detective Mark MacPherson (Dana Andrews) who is investigating the murder of...

Pros: Alfred Hitchcock-like mystery
Cons: it's a sleeper to this day

I saw Laura because I am a huge David Lynch fan. I had read a future Lynch fan talking about many coincidences Laura has in accordance to David Lynch's work. I rented Laura and besides it being a great movie, it was thrilling to see what was an obvious...

Pros: Great film all in all, great characters
Cons: Vincent Price is a little cheesy in this

Otto Preminger's Laura is an excellent who-dunit in the classic noir tradition. This film is wonderfully crafted and a must see.
The cast of Laura is well rounded with Gene Tierny as the elusive Laura, Vincent Price as her beau, Dana Andrews as the...