Niagara
starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
directed by: Henry Hathaway
directed by: Henry Hathaway
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Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 05/30/2006
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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
Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 05/30/2006
Amazon.com essential video:
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- 56 YEAR OLD FILM STILL ENTERTAINS!
Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten do a good job holding our interest in this Hitchcock-style thriller.
Rating: - Fun, Fifties Technicolor Noir
I liked this film but I'm not sure it was for good reasons.I went to Niagara Falls with my parents sometime in the fifties or sixties and this brought back happy memories.The shots of the Falls and the sound of the pounding water are wonderful.I loved all the tourist stuff--the log cabins, the yellow slickers and boots, the trip underneath the falls, and the gift shop!
As for a more "objective" review of the film:Marilyn Monroe does her sexy thing here.I noticed that a lot ... Read More
Rating: 
- 'Retains an Undiminished Popularity Throughout the Years'
Henry Hathaway's 'Niagara' captures the the feel of a really bad vacation. A vacation with someone who no longer loves; or particularly likes you, and is quite possibly whiling away the hours thinking of ways to kill you.
One can almost smell the mildew on the towels and the staleness of the ashtrays in the Motor Lodge where Rose Loomis (Marilyn Monroe) lounges in bed wearing red lipstick and not much else, while her battle-fatigued husband George (Joseph Cotten), wanders aroundNiagara ... Read More
Rating: 
- "Barrel (over the Falls) O' Fun"
This is a wonderfully suspenseful movie, shot with the grandeur of Niagra Falls as a backdrop--along with the accompanying noise and mist. Great acting by all parties: Monroe, Cotten, Peters et. al.It is very Hitchcocky in nature. We all know that Joseph Cotten can play evil and diabolical.In later years it was his hallmark.How about Marilyn? If you view this beautiful movie, you won't be wondering for long.
Rating: - Not bad, and with a strange, artificial creation of breasts, lipstick and sleepy eyelids to look at
Niagara, in my view, is a second-rate A movie struggling with only partial success to be a first-rate B movie. What it needs is Audrey Totter as Rose Loomis instead of Marilyn Monroe and Charles McGraw as George Loomis instead of Joseph Cotton. We'll keep Jean Peters but let's ditch her husband, especially when played by an actor named Casey Adams as an irritating clone of Robert Cummings. Rose Loomis is a tramp, and a dangerous one, but Monroe for my money is just giving us a caricature of a tramp, all ... Read More
- 56 YEAR OLD FILM STILL ENTERTAINS!Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten do a good job holding our interest in this Hitchcock-style thriller.
- Fun, Fifties Technicolor NoirI liked this film but I'm not sure it was for good reasons.I went to Niagara Falls with my parents sometime in the fifties or sixties and this brought back happy memories.The shots of the Falls and the sound of the pounding water are wonderful.I loved all the tourist stuff--the log cabins, the yellow slickers and boots, the trip underneath the falls, and the gift shop!
As for a more "objective" review of the film:Marilyn Monroe does her sexy thing here.I noticed that a lot ... Read More
- 'Retains an Undiminished Popularity Throughout the Years'Henry Hathaway's 'Niagara' captures the the feel of a really bad vacation. A vacation with someone who no longer loves; or particularly likes you, and is quite possibly whiling away the hours thinking of ways to kill you.
One can almost smell the mildew on the towels and the staleness of the ashtrays in the Motor Lodge where Rose Loomis (Marilyn Monroe) lounges in bed wearing red lipstick and not much else, while her battle-fatigued husband George (Joseph Cotten), wanders aroundNiagara ... Read More
- "Barrel (over the Falls) O' Fun"This is a wonderfully suspenseful movie, shot with the grandeur of Niagra Falls as a backdrop--along with the accompanying noise and mist. Great acting by all parties: Monroe, Cotten, Peters et. al.It is very Hitchcocky in nature. We all know that Joseph Cotten can play evil and diabolical.In later years it was his hallmark.How about Marilyn? If you view this beautiful movie, you won't be wondering for long.
- Not bad, and with a strange, artificial creation of breasts, lipstick and sleepy eyelids to look atNiagara, in my view, is a second-rate A movie struggling with only partial success to be a first-rate B movie. What it needs is Audrey Totter as Rose Loomis instead of Marilyn Monroe and Charles McGraw as George Loomis instead of Joseph Cotton. We'll keep Jean Peters but let's ditch her husband, especially when played by an actor named Casey Adams as an irritating clone of Robert Cummings. Rose Loomis is a tramp, and a dangerous one, but Monroe for my money is just giving us a caricature of a tramp, all ... Read More
