Movie Description A classic noirish mystery with a consummate ensemble of actors. Dana Andrews adroitly plays the detective who delves into the murder of the stunningly beautiful Laura, with whom it seems everyone, including the detective himself, is in love. But Webb steals the show as the titular ingenue's creepily elegant social mentor, Waldo Lydecker. Based on the novel by Vera Caspary. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director. Academy Awards: Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography.
| Credits | | Producer: | Otto Preminger | | Cast: | Clifton Webb, Dutch Schlickenmeyer, Frank La Rue, Grant Mitchell, James Flavin, Kathleen Howard, Lane Chandler |
Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Stereo - English Mono - English Mono - Spanish Additional Release Material: Deleted Scene Alternate Ending Audio Commentary - 1. David Raskin - Composer & Janine Basinger - Wesleyan University Film Professor 2. Rudy Behlmer - Film Historian Documentaries - 1. GENE TIERNEY: A SHATTERED PORTRAIT 2. VINCENT PRICE: THE VERSATILE VILLAIN Theatrical Trailer, LAURA was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999.
Additional cast: Clyde Fillmore (Bullitt); Ralph Dunn (Fred Callahan); Lee Tung Foo (Servant); and Harold Schlickenmayer, Harry Strang and Lane Chandler (Detectives).
Editorial Reviews "...That LAURA continues to weave a spell -- and it does -- is a tribute to style over sanity....The music lends a haunted, nostalgic, regretful cast to everything it plays under..." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (01/20/2002)
...This all-timer made a standard of the title tune, launched co-star Clifton Webb's screen career....[and] it also gives Vincent Price and Judith Anderson meaty suspect roles..." USA Today - Mike Clark (03/12/1993)
"[T]he whodunit still gleams like a pearl-handled pistol..." Entertainment Weekly - Edward Karam (03/18/2005)
"[A] delectable romantic thriller..." Los Angeles Times - Susan King (04/03/2005)
"Preminger's waspish masterpiece, which swings from high society noir to romantic mystery two thirds of the way through." Sight and Sound - Kate Stables (04/01/2006)
Awards 1944Academy AwardsBest CinematographyJoseph LaShelle
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