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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303364773 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303364772 Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: February 15, 1995 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1945 Editorial Review: 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 Average Rating:
 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 ... Read More Rating:  - 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. Rating: - Leave her to HeavenThis is a wonderful old movie, with greater substance than many we see today. Enjoy it as I did. Rating: - leave her to heaveni got the dvd for my mother,she loves it,she said it is a great movie Rating: - "She loved her father too much"Here's a quick note, if an engaged woman starts beaming about how much you remind her of her dead father, breaks her engagement within a few days, and tries to get you to marry her about a couple weeks(if that) of knowing each other, RUN! There are two spectrums regarding the nightmare wife. One is is completely uncaring of her spouse and becomes a apathetic shrew, the other side is the excessively jealous wife who turns any other contact into a nightmare. Ellen was the latter. In her deranged ... Read More |
