Gene Tierney's Best: LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN From Criterion March 2020

And the scene on the lake, with Tierney in the boat...….!!!

Why wasn't this in the collection already? It's very famous for the cinematography.

An utter classic. It is BEYOND.

Is this really the only color film ever to be considered a film-noir?

In short, No.

Life lesson #1: Annoying special needs boys and inconvenient fetuses should never pull focus from a fierce bitch in Warby Parker shades.

Ellen!... It's a cramp! Ellen! It's a cramp!.... Elleh! Ellweh! Heh me!

Is this the only movie where Cornel Wilde kept his shirt on?

Wasn't JFK in love with her?

Miscarriage by slipper under carpet edge is brilliant.

"Is this really the only color film ever to be considered a film-noir? "

I honestly can't think of another sun-drenched technicolor film noir.

NIAGARA?

Has anybody read the book? Is it worth a read?

Don’t expect miracles with the transfer if Fox threw out the three-strip negatives for a one-strip quick-fade CRI back in the studio’s post-[italic]Hello, Dolly![/italic] pre-[italic]Star Wars[/italic] interim recovering from near bankruptcy. 1970s unlogic at its worst.

Nitrate three-strips I mean. Anything shot in three-strip Technicolor on safety stock, which I believe [italic]Niagara[/italic] was, should still have negatives saved.

R13 I read the book and liked it a lot.

It's told from each of the character's perspectives and jumps around a lot in the story - but that just adds to the suspense.

The movie sort of dies with Ellen - SORT OF - but if you read the book you are really with each of the characters not just one.... Recommended.

The Blu-ray put out by Twilight Time five years ago is very good. I’ve read that the Criterion disc will be from the same transfer, with just a bit of digital cleanup.

I am guessing the extras will be different here just as they were for [italic]All About Eve [/italic]. Get them while the getting is good, because the more control the mouse exerts over them, the less likely you are to see releases like this. I hope to Walt’s ashes I am wrong.

It may look “good” in the sense that it is not painful or unpleasant to watch, but that is not the same as an accurate reproduction of the original. That is impossible even with the best digital tools of today. And even Disney magic can only do so much to undo the bad decisions of the past, even their own.

Some of the scenes in "Leave Her to Heaven" are so stylish they look like cartoons. Tierney is so beautiful she looks like an airbrush painting.

Amazingly one of the actors in the film is still with us: Darryl Hickman

“There’s nothing wrong with Ellen. She just loves too much.”

“But after all, doctor— he’s a CRIPPLE!”

Darryl Hickman did the commentary for the Fox DVD, but it looks like Criterion won't be including it.

According to IMDb there are 36 color film-noirs (though for some reason Hitchcock's Spellbound is on the list too; I don't remember any of the scenes in that one being in color).

There is a flash of color in Spellbound when that gun goes off.

I'll never let you go. Never, never, never.

Spoiler: I love how she still has a grip on his hand after, you know...

Got my disc today! Thanks Criterion Corona-sale!

Good as this is, I think Tierney is at her best (and loveliest) in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

You guys know tnat Fox destroyed all its original three strip Technicolor negatives back in the early 1970s, right? They transferred everything to single strip safety film as a cost cutting measure. Some of the transfers look better than others, including this one, but none of those glorious Fox Technicolor films will ever look as good as when they were originally released. They did a particularly bad job with many of their musicals.

You guys know tnat Fox destroyed all its original three strip Technicolor negatives back in the early 1970s, right? They transferred everything to single strip safety film as a cost cutting measure. Some of the transfers look better than others, including this one, but none of those glorious Fox Technicolor films will ever look as good as when they were originally released. They did a particularly bad job with many of their musicals.

There's a hilarious review James Agee wrote of this film where he points out that your heart goes out to the Gene Tierney character, Ellen, for killing the younger brother of her husband, Cornel Wilde. The annoying and superpossessive handicapped brat insists on always being with his brother, and so he shows up, unannounced and uninvited, with his elderly pal on her honeymoon (!!). Then he sleeps in the room right next to Ellen's and Cornel Wilde's, so they can't even have sex lest he hear them. Of course she wanted to kill him!

[quote] I honestly can't think of another sun-drenched technicolor film noir.

Plein Soleil

Desert Fury. The sun drenched Technicolor is usually described as "lurid." And the blatently gay insinuations and subtext is astonishing for a film from the late 1940s.