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Laura (Preminger, 1944)
DVD £12.49 RRP £17.99 You save £5.50 (30%)
Film Description One of the indisputable classics of film noir, Laura is 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.
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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 1st April 2006 ‘I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.’ So begins Preminger’s supremely classy film noir in which Detective Mark McPherson tries to tease out just who killed Laura Hunt. It’s not as if people aren’t trying to be helpful, suspects are forthcoming and readily admit to their cover-ups. Nor is the problem that people aren’t who they appear to be – more that everybody is exactly who and what they seem. Critic Waldo Lydecker, who took Laura under his protective wing, is odious, both contemptuous and contemptible – and knows it, while playboy fiancé Shelby Carpenter, played with laconic charm by Vincent Price, is a shifty, idle chancer – and knows it. Even Laura is too coolly calculating to be particularly likeable. In fact the amount of knowledge that characters have of their own and others’ failings is remarkable. If anything, they all know a little too much. None of this makes it any easier to find the murderer though and McPherson, for all his appearance of cool, desperately tries to balance professional scrutiny with a personal interest borne of the large, attractive painting of Laura that hangs over the fireplace watching proceedings, and always visible behind characters’ conversations.
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Article - "Otto Preminger"
by David Parkinson
Few film-makers have enjoyed careers as varied and as controversial as the Vienna-born Otto Preminger . He started out as an assistant to the stage maestro Max Reinhardt in Berlin and ended up playing Mr Freeze opposite Adam West and Burt Ward in the 1960s TV series,... View article in full
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