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Tarfumes.com - Niagara
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List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302484427
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302484421
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Running Time: 89
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1953-01-21
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A neatly enjoyable thriller in the pseudo-Hitchcock mode, Niagara offers great fun on a variety of levels. It has film noir themes (albeit in Technicolor), oodles of location shooting, and Freudian symbolism run amok. And, of course, it has Marilyn Monroe as an unbelievably ripe femme fatale: married to unstable hubby Joseph Cotten and stuck in a cabin at Niagara Falls, she plots a watery escape. Jean Peters (a future Mrs. Howard Hughes) and froggy husband Casey Adams are dragged into the intrigue during their delayed honeymoon. Veteran open-air director Henry Hathaway squeezes the most out of the spectacular scenery and the nail-biting climax, slowing down only for traveloguey interludes; the dialogue, pretty racy for 1953, comes from the civilized pen of producer-writer Charles Brackett (Billy Wilder's longtime partner). The baby-doll murmuring and lazy lounging in motel bed sheets is, well, all Marilyn. --Robert Horton
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Summary: Mesmerizing Moroe
Comment: Monroe as a sympathetic villainess. No dumb blonde characature, rather, a silken lusty unfaithful wife plotting the demise of her mentally unstable husband. No spoiler here... let's just say all does not go as planned.
Monroe sings exquisitely "Kiss" .... this scene alone reveals Marilyn's genius of seduction and performance. She owns the celluloid, the lens, the viewer. It may surprise you to see her in this light. The scene is short, hypnotic, and flawlessly executed.
Monroe steals the show every time. This is one of my all time favorite Monroe films.
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Summary: A Different Kind of Roll for Marilyn Monroe
Comment: The movie opens with a young couple crossing over to the Canadian Side of Niagara Falls on their way to a motor lodge overlooking the falls. They are on a belated honeymoon. However, their cabin is taken by a gorgeous blonde (Monroe) and her psychotic husband to say the least (Joseph Cotten).
While touring at the falls the young bride (Jean Peters) sees Monroe in the arms of another which will fuel her suspicions later on. When Cotton turns up dead, Monroe checks out and our honeymooners get their cabin, however Cotton, who is not so dead after all, sneaks in to kill Monroe (who's lover had tried to kill Cotton, but Cotton got the better of him). Peters screams, Cotton flees and nobody believes her. Just a nightmare her husband says.
But you know it wasn't. Marilyn Monroe turned in a great performance here as did Jean Peters. Cotton was pretty believable as a mentally unstable husband and the best part of all was the restoration. I'd never seen this movie, so I was able to come at it fresh and I liked it a lot. If you haven't seen it, you should.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
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Summary: Murder by Falling Water
Comment: The film begins at Niagara Falls; you can see the rainbow but miss any pot of gold. This atmosphere is filled with negative ions from the spray. A man returns to his cabin. A young couple travels to Canada for their delayed honeymoon. They sail on "The Maid of the Mist". The river falls with a roar. The tour under the falls is like a ritual. But the couple in cabin B has problems. Will a record be broken? Is there a self-destructive problem? The conversations show an earlier America. A sheep rancher married a waitress in a beer hall. This marriage shows its strains. Rose knows how to make a coded telephone call; they are planning a solution to this romantic triangle. The film hints at George's problem of "battle fatigue".
Rose puts the finger on her husband. Mr. Cutler uses his Argus C-3 to photograph his wife. The police search for the missing George Loomis. His wife identifies his shoes. Then a body is fished out of the river. Rose faints when she sees the body at the morgue. The Cutlers are given cabin B, and Polly sees the missing man. [An echo of "The Third Man"?] The tourist walk has a hidden danger. Polly decides to remain silent. Later Mr. Starkey visits Polly and learns that George Loomis is alive. Rose has skipped out of the hospital. The police are looking for Rose. So too is her husband. The silence of the bells symbolizes Rose's fate. What will happen to George?
This film is similar to other movies of that era (like "Sorry Wrong Number"). The scenery is an added attraction. It portrays the attitudes of people circa 1952 as seen by Hollywood. This story is consistent with true crime stories. One spouse wants out of the marriage, so the other dies. Who benefitted by the death? Has the prevalence of divorce since then changed anything?
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Summary: Add This One to Your Movie Library!
Comment: This movie has so many twists and turns, just when you expect the movie to go one way, it shifts totally into the opposite. Excellent screen writing for this film. I've become bored w/ recent movies, so I've decided to start looking @ classic movies for entertainment. This is definitely something that you would want to add to your movie library. Keeps you in suspense the whole time. Other than the "Seven Year Itch," I have never seen Marilyn Monroe in film. From my point of view, she does an excellent job in this film. Not your ordinary "dumb blonde" role. This movie was totally not what I expected, especially for a movie done in the '50s. Views of Niagara Falls were beautiful. Go get this movie!
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Summary: Lots To Look At And Admire
Comment: The great scenery and colors of Niagara Falls, two very attractive female leads, and an interesting story all add up to a very good rating for this classic film.
The DVD offers a very nice print: sharp, with color restoration that makes it look great. Niagara Falls never looked better (and I live just 25 miles away), and either did Marilyn Monroe or Jean Peters.
Everyone knows about Monroe's beauty (and, I think, underrated acting talents) but Peters was a beautiful woman with a great body, herself. It's the men in here who are goofy: Joseph Cotten and his whining and mental illness; Casey Adams with his nerd-ish personality and Adams' boss Don Wilson, who is even more of a cornball.
This crime story is a suspenseful film with several twists and turns and segments that keep you on the edge of your seat. It's film noir material even though it's color which might disqualify it for some purists.
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