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DVD Tuesday: Laura — Love and Death and Film Noir Chills | Ask FlickChick | 11/20/2007
DVD Tuesday: In love with Laura, smart, ambitious, beautiful... the perfect woman — except that she's dead... I vividly remember the first time I saw Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), in which cynical, blue-collar detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) catches the case of self-made socialite Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), who was shotgunned in the face when she opened the door to her chic Manhattan apartment.Against his better hard-boiled judgment, McPherson falls under the dead girl's spell, seduced by her portrait, her letters, her record collection, the faint lingering hint of her perfume, the way she bootstrapped herself from small-town nobody to big-city somebody. And then Laura walks through the door, blithely unaware that she's dead. Laura is, of course, not dead — Laura is a thriller, not a ghost story. But the moment is a mind-boggler. Based on the 1942 novel by Vera Caspary, Laura is noir at its most bleakly, sleekly menacing, and little-girl-lost Laura Hunt's tale is... read more
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FlickChick | 2/2/2006
When did directors start getting credits like ?Alfred Hitchcock?s Psycho??That?s called a possessory credit, and popular read more
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Today's News: My Take | 10/8/2003
Reese Witherspoon is poised to star in and produce a remake of Otto Preminger's 1965 film Bunny Lake Is Missing, Variety read more
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