Films A to Z
Niagara
- Runtime:
- 92 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1953
- Country:
- USA
- Director:
- Cast:
- Marylin Monroe
Joseph Cotten
Jean Peters - Production Company:
- 20th Century Fox
- Berlinale Section:
- Retrospective
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
At Niagara Falls, Ray and Polly Cutler meet the Loomis. Rose is an attractive blonde with a penchant for life, her husband George an obviously depressed war veteran with a penchant for jealousy. And with good reason: Rose is actually planning to have her lover throw him off the falls ... The marriage and revenge thriller combines the low-key staging of expressionist shadows from a film noir with the glorious showmanship of a Technicolor production. Color applications already contribute to the characterization of the forces of nature in the "establishing shots": A rainbow over black rock adorns Niagara Falls; MM wears red lipstick between white sheets, and nothing else recognizable. While the natural beauty aesthetically ennobles the "Falls", the make-up discredits the woman. Even here, the film provides insight into a moral abyss that is supposed to fascinate cinema audiences just as much as Ray Cutler is fascinated by the sight of Niagara Falls: "Look, so many colors I've never heard of before!
BIOGRAFIE Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway (13 March 1898 - 11 February 1985) learned the profession of director as assistant to filmmakers such as Josef von Sternberg and Victor Fleming. In the 1920s he was assistant to the legendary monumental film Ben Hur. From 1932 he was able to direct independently and became one of the most successful directors of Western films. Hathaway was nominated for an Oscar in 1936. After 1945 he shot some of the best Hollywood thrillers of the Black Series. In the 1960's he led the Westerngenre to a new era, with movies that are considered classics today. In the course of his career Hathaway received several awards and was nominated for various prizes. In 1960 he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1967 he was awarded the Golden Laurel as a director.
source: wikipedia.org
FILMOGRAFIE Henry Hathaway (selection)
1969 True Grit
1967 The Last Safari
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder
1964 Circus World
1962 How the West Was Won
1960 North to Alaska
1958 From Hell to Texas
1957 Legend of the Lost
1956 23 Paces to Baker Street
1954 Prince Valiant
1954 Garden of Evil
1953 Niagara
1952 Diplomatic Courier
1951 Fourteen Hours
1950 The Black Rose
1947 Kiss of Death
1945 The House on 92nd Street
1944 Wing and a Prayer
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1941 Sundown
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills
1940 Brigham Young: Frontiersman
1938 Spawn of the North
1937 Souls at Sea
1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer