Film · 20th Century · 1944
Pass it on
Laura
43Leave it.
He investigates a murder and falls for a picture, which is where it gets creepy.
Take controlThis scores 43. Laura cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
The portrait does more work than the suspects do. A detective investigates a woman's murder and falls for her picture. Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb. Adult. Not a family film. The case is not what that room first says, and I am not stacking a second twist on it.
The creep is the possession of her image. He has a real job and he is also fixed on the picture of the woman the job is about. I don't admire that, however neat the mystery feels. Put it on with another grown person. If the portrait starts to matter more than the woman, say it out loud. Looking is not the same as doing right by her.
Journal
Keep Laura in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Endless
61 instead of 43
The Endless is still a mystery film, and it scores 61 instead of 43. What you gain is household: The brother is the household.
The eight
- 7Industry
A detective on a murder is a real job, and he stays on the case.
- 2Household
No marriage and no child. A portrait stands in for a person.
- 3Piety
Nothing in him stops the fall for a picture of the woman.
- 4Courage
He stays with a case the room has already told wrong.
- 6Republic
A murder is a debt to the woman and to the law that sent him.
- 3Temperance
Falling for the portrait is the want, and the film stays on it.
- 6Truth
The room's first account does not hold, and believing it costs.
- 3Stewardship
You leave with the creep of a man possessing a woman's image.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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