Leave Her To Heaven - 1945 USA d: John M Stahl
A superb film from back when Hollywood was something special. A wonderful story of a woman's madness and how it affects everyone around her and the lengths to which she will stretch to get what she wants. The film is one of the masterpieces of Technicolor, looking sumptuous and magnificent (stunning Leon Shamroy cinematography. Gene Tierney is stunning as one of cinema's ultimate femmes fatales, but the whole cast is perfect - Cornel Wilde does his man adrift thing as well as ever, Jeanne Crain as the hapless angel, Vincent Price as the man scorned and so on. It's a brilliant film.
Clearly the best of the colour Noirs, it is odd that so far neither Fox nor Criterion have issued a Blu-Ray of this. If ever a film was crying out for a lovely bright HD remaster, this is it!
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