Blu-ray
Leave her to heaven
Call Number
- BLU-RAY MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Gene Lockhart, Reed Hadley, Darryl Hickman, Chill Wills.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"Novelist Richard Harland seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen, a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice. Yet the glassy surface of Ellen's devotion soon reveals monstrous depths, as Richard comes to realize that his wife is shockingly possessive and may be capable of destroying anyone who comes between them. A singular Hollywood masterpiece that draws freely from the women's picture and film noir alike, Leave Her to Heaven boasts elegant direction by melodrama specialist John M. Stahl, blazing Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy, and a chilling performance by Tierney, whose Ellen is a femme fatale unlike any other: a woman whose love is as pure as it is poisonous."--Container.
Notes
Based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration by Twentieth Century Fox, the Academy Film Archive, and The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; new interviews with critic Imogen Sara Smith ; trailer.