Niagara
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Denis O'Dea, Jean Peters, Joseph Cotten, Marilyn Monroe, Max ShowalterDirector: Henry Hathaway
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: Barbara McLean
Producer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Richard L. Breen
Writer: Walter Reisch
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Niagara
Movie Review: 56 YEAR OLD FILM STILL ENTERTAINS!
Summary: 4 Stars
Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten do a good job holding our interest in this Hitchcock-style thriller.
Summary of Niagara
Set against the dramatic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Marilyn Monroe portrays Rose, a femme fatale possessing two of the most powerful weapons: an erotic body and an evil mind. Planning to murder her troubled husband (Joseph Cotton), rose first uses her double edged sword to drive him t the brink of total insanity. Then she seductively torments a series of stranger while her mysterious lover waits in the shadows. Vastily different from her often comedic roles. Marilyn's classic dramatic performance as this diabolical and scheming woman is at once fascination and frightening, painting a powerful portrait of human sexuality and passion.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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