Leave Her to Heaven
starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
directed by: John M. Stahl
directed by: John M. Stahl
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When richard harland marries ellen he soon finds his life blighted when tragedies take his brother & then his unborn son from him. He comes to suspect these events are not unconnected with his wifes unreasonable jealousy. Yet another shock awaits them all when ellens emotions become uncontrollable.Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 02/22/2005Starring: Gene Tierney Jeanne CrainRun time: 110 minutesRating: Nr
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Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two.
Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. --Richard T. Jameson
When richard harland marries ellen he soon finds his life blighted when tragedies take his brother & then his unborn son from him. He comes to suspect these events are not unconnected with his wifes unreasonable jealousy. Yet another shock awaits them all when ellens emotions become uncontrollable.Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 02/22/2005Starring: Gene Tierney Jeanne CrainRun time: 110 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com:
Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two.
Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. --Richard T. Jameson
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- Entertaining film from the forties
Cornell Wilde (Richard) is an author riding on a train with a creepy woman (Gene Tierney playing Ellen) across from him. She stares at him for about 5 minutes, then tells him he looks just like her dad.Turns out they're going to the same place, and she'll meet up with her mother and sister Ruth(really her cousin).
Richard is the biggest sap in the world and marries Ellen after knowing her just a few days, even though she's engaged to a politician (well, a district attorney).She's ... Read More
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- classic movie
I ordered this movie because I haven't seen it in so long. Love this movie. It came right away. Very pleased.
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- Good and evil with no shades of gray
I recommend purchasing the DVD of "Leave her to Heaven" in order to listen to Darryl Hickman's recollections of working on the film as a 14 year old child actor, playing the part of Danny Harland, the crippled brother of the protagonist, Richard Harland (played by Cornel Wilde). Whether you agree or disagree with Hickman's comments, they remain fascinating and will give you insight into the making of this film.
Hickman recalls that director John Stahl treated him very poorly halfway into ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful Poison...
Ellen (Gene Tierney) is a beautiful, intelligent young woman. She is outwardly perfect in every regard. Unfortunately, she is lacking some things internally. Ellen has no conscience. She also lacks compassion, empathy, and a few other human qualities. Ellen lives only to please herself, by any means necessary. Along comes a handsome, successful writer (Cornel Wilde) who catches Ellen's eye. She wants him, but wait, she's already engaged to be married to another man (Vincent Price). No problem! In Ellen's ... Read More
Rating: - Leave Her to the 1940s
I was disappointed with Leave Her to Heaven after reading so many glowing reviews. It seemed too long, and it built far too slowly. Things didn't really get interesting until about an hour in.
Here's the kicker though: Would Vincent Price's character really be allowed to the be prosecuting attorney in a case involving the murder of his ex-fiancee? Is that not a massive conflict of interest? Maybe in the 1940s that wasn't a problem, but it sure threw the film's sense of realism for a loop.
- Entertaining film from the fortiesCornell Wilde (Richard) is an author riding on a train with a creepy woman (Gene Tierney playing Ellen) across from him. She stares at him for about 5 minutes, then tells him he looks just like her dad.Turns out they're going to the same place, and she'll meet up with her mother and sister Ruth(really her cousin).
Richard is the biggest sap in the world and marries Ellen after knowing her just a few days, even though she's engaged to a politician (well, a district attorney).She's ... Read More
- classic movieI ordered this movie because I haven't seen it in so long. Love this movie. It came right away. Very pleased.
- Good and evil with no shades of grayI recommend purchasing the DVD of "Leave her to Heaven" in order to listen to Darryl Hickman's recollections of working on the film as a 14 year old child actor, playing the part of Danny Harland, the crippled brother of the protagonist, Richard Harland (played by Cornel Wilde). Whether you agree or disagree with Hickman's comments, they remain fascinating and will give you insight into the making of this film.
Hickman recalls that director John Stahl treated him very poorly halfway into ... Read More
- Beautiful Poison...Ellen (Gene Tierney) is a beautiful, intelligent young woman. She is outwardly perfect in every regard. Unfortunately, she is lacking some things internally. Ellen has no conscience. She also lacks compassion, empathy, and a few other human qualities. Ellen lives only to please herself, by any means necessary. Along comes a handsome, successful writer (Cornel Wilde) who catches Ellen's eye. She wants him, but wait, she's already engaged to be married to another man (Vincent Price). No problem! In Ellen's ... Read More
- Leave Her to the 1940sI was disappointed with Leave Her to Heaven after reading so many glowing reviews. It seemed too long, and it built far too slowly. Things didn't really get interesting until about an hour in.
Here's the kicker though: Would Vincent Price's character really be allowed to the be prosecuting attorney in a case involving the murder of his ex-fiancee? Is that not a massive conflict of interest? Maybe in the 1940s that wasn't a problem, but it sure threw the film's sense of realism for a loop.
