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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543261056
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 16830
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1953
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Description:
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 andfrightening, painting a powerful portrait of human sexuality and passion.
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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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Rating:  - 'Retains an Undiminished Popularity Throughout the Years'
Henry Hathaway's 'Niagara' captures the the feel of a really bad vacation. A vacation with someone who no longer loves; or particularly likes you, and is quite possibly whiling away the hours thinking of ways to kill you.
One can almost smell the mildew on the towels and the staleness of the ashtrays in the Motor Lodge where Rose Loomis (Marilyn Monroe) lounges in bed wearing red lipstick and not much else, while her battle-fatigued husband George (Joseph Cotten), wanders aroundNiagara ... Read More
Rating:  - "Barrel (over the Falls) O' Fun"
This is a wonderfully suspenseful movie, shot with the grandeur of Niagra Falls as a backdrop--along with the accompanying noise and mist. Great acting by all parties: Monroe, Cotten, Peters et. al.It is very Hitchcocky in nature. We all know that Joseph Cotten can play evil and diabolical.In later years it was his hallmark.How about Marilyn? If you view this beautiful movie, you won't be wondering for long.
Rating:  - Not bad, and with a strange, artificial creation of breasts, lipstick and sleepy eyelids to look at
Niagara, in my view, is a second-rate A movie struggling with only partial success to be a first-rate B movie. What it needs is Audrey Totter as Rose Loomis instead of Marilyn Monroe and Charles McGraw as George Loomis instead of Joseph Cotton. We'll keep Jean Peters but let's ditch her husband, especially when played by an actor named Casey Adams as an irritating clone of Robert Cummings. Rose Loomis is a tramp, and a dangerous one, but Monroe for my money is just giving us a caricature of a tramp, all ... Read More
Rating: - Worth Watching Again and Again!
Filmed in beautiful technicolor, this thriller is like a Hickcock movie without his profile to find.Marilyn Monroe played an unfaithful wife who met her just end; like Virginia Barnes, she lathered on the bright red lipstick.She wore that stuff to bed even her makup was impecable.Even in the hospital, she was fully made up, shades of Doris Day.She sure could walk funny in her skin-tight clothes.The falls themselves was the star of the movie.
In the years since this was filmed, the ... Read More
Rating: - Above average thriller
This is a fairly good thriller, despite the flaws in the plot and despite some atrocious acting, for which the director is to blame.The final scene is as thrilling as any "chase" ever filmed.
The plot flaws are by way of coincidences.Joseph Cotton just happens to show up in the oddest places where Jean Peters can see him.And he apparently managed to move around over a large area on foot but fast.In fact, the plot revolves around the encounters between Cotton and Peters.There is also ... Read More
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