Leave Her to Heaven1945
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
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Critic Consensus: Leave Her to Heaven suffers from a surfeit of unlikable characters, but the solid cast -- led by an outstanding Gene Tierney -- makes it hard to turn away.
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Cast
as Ellen Berent Harland
as Richard Harland
as Russell Quinton
as Ruth Berent
as Mrs. Berent
as Glen Robie
as Dr. Saunders
as Dr. Mason
as Danny Harland
as Leick Thorne
as Judge
as Mrs. Robie
as Bedford
as Catterson
as Carlson
as Medcraft
as Norton
as Lin Robie
as Tess Robie
as Nurse
as Fisherwoman
as Cook at Robie's Ranch
as Sheriff
as Conductor
as Man
Critic Reviews for Leave Her to Heaven
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Leave Her to Heaven is a well-done picture and rates as good screen entertainment.
Director Stahl has certainly made the most out of the book and done well directing the young players.
Miss Tierney enacts this sordid virulent role in a manner that will prove strangely arresting for those who look on. It is even the kind of interpretation that may win the Academy award.
The movie version of Ben Ames Williams' novel follows the book closely and should satisfy the thousands who read it avidly.
[Ellen] is a fascinating figure, even with all her repellant attributes, as played by Gene Tierney, who bites deep into the role, and turns in the most deeply emotional characterization with which she has been identified to date.
The above is, as von can see, not the outline of a pretty story. Producer Zanuck is not one, however, to be deterred by the lack of a pretty story. He has swaddled much of the un-prettiness in one of the prettiest of productions in recent years.
Audience Reviews for Leave Her to Heaven
Gene Tierney plays the woman who's got it all ... except upstairs between her ears, and Cornel Wilde and Jeanne Crain endeavor mightily to tolerate her. They hardly can bear up. Vincent Price does a great job however as an abusive District Attorney, stealing the film. The action happens in that popular magazine cover perfect world that ruled in Hollywood film at that time. There's one scene, for instance, where Tierney, supposed pregnant (altho that's impossible to see) looks in a mirror horrified: "I look terrible," she says, when she doesn't look that way at all, when nothing in the film looks that way.
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Gene Tierney succeeds playing against character, substituting her angelic presence for a childish, treacherous and venomous femme fatale. Noir in blazing technicolor, beautifully shot.
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Gene Tierney's character gets my vote as the most cold-hearted, sociopathic, beautifully packaged villain to ever grace the silver screen. On a scale of pure evil she's right up there with Hannibal Lector and the shark from Jaws.
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