Evening viewing recommendation? Otto Preminger's classic mystery LAURA (1944)—one of the most sophisticated noirs of the 1940s, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb—now playing in our Fox Noir series on the Criterion Channel! 🖤 https://www.criterionchannel.com/fox-noir | The Criterion Collection

Remembering Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews in... Laura 1944 Interrogation Scene Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel Laura by Vera Caspary. In 1999, Laura was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "cul

LAURA (1944) In one of the most celebrated 1940s film noirs, Manhattan detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the murder of Madison Avenue executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) in her fashionable apartment. On the trail of her murderer, McPherson quizzes Laura's arrogant best friend, gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) and her comparatively mild fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). As the detective grows obsessed with the case, he finds himself falling in love with th

Laura (1944) directed by Otto Preminger. Commissioned to score Preminger’s film, Raksin composed the haunting theme just days after separating from his first wife, drawing on her “Dear John” letter for inspiration and channeling his heartbreak into one of the most memorable and recognizable melodies in cinema history. | History of Cinema

Otto Preminger on the success of ‘Laura’ (1944) and how the critics viewed it upon release: “Bogdanovich: Have you found, in later years, that the success of Laura, coming so early in your film career, was more of a hindrance with critics than an asset? Preminger: I don’t ever think of anything in terms like those. Besides, Laura became a classic only later on, which is a great satisfaction for me. I got very mixed reviews at first—some really bad ones, in fact. I met one of the reviewers after