Genre Country Director Actor

Gene Tierney Collection (Studio Stars)

Various , Compilation , 1941-47

Film Description

Five films starring one of the great leading ladies of the 1940s, Gene Tierney, best known for her portrayal of the enigmatic murder victim in Preminger's classic film noir, Laura.

Thunder Birds (William A Wellman, 1942) is Technicolor story about flight training in Arizona in which Tierney plays the woman who tests the bond between two men who both fall for her. Features some outstanding aerial photography.

Tobacco Road (John Ford, 1941) is a Depression-era film, from Erskine Caldwell's novel about Georgia sharecroppers, played mainly for laughs.

Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) is simply one of the indisputable classics of film noir. A delicious murder mystery with a superb, lean script, its twisted central premise - a detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating - is brilliantly realised by Otto Preminger, and beautifully shot with Joseph LaShelle's Oscar-winning camerawork.

In Leave Her To Heaven (John M Stahl, 1946), Tierney stars as a father-fixated girl who picks a husband because of his resemblance to Daddy, and is then consumed with possessive, destructive jealousy.

The Ghost And Mrs Muir (Joseph L Mankiewicz 1947) see a young widow and her daughter move into a windswept cottage on the English coast, which they soon learn is haunted by the ghost of its former owner - a salty sea captain who attempts to scare them off. When he fails to do so, an unlikely love affair develops.