Niagara

Niagara

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  • Genre: Thriller, Crime
  • Release Date: 1953-01-26
  • Runtime: 92 minutes
  • : 6.8
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.8/10
6.8
From 426 Ratings

Description

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    Right from the outset, this has the look of an Hitchcock mystery to it. Indeed, the opening bars of Sol Kaplan’s score sound very Herrmann-esque as we open with some grand scale photography of the Falls. That’s where we meet newlyweds “Polly” (Jean Peters) and “Ray” (Max Showalter) who have arrived on the Canadian side for a few days in a cabin overlooking the spray. Thing is, the previous residents haven’t checked-out and “Rose” (Marilyn Monroe) insists her husband “George” (Joseph Cotton) is too ill to travel. It emerges fairly swiftly that she is a bit of a temptress and that “George” knows it. What he doesn’t know, though, is that she and her latest beau (Richard Allan) have laid plans to be shot of him and then to head to Chicago. Suffice to say, that doesn’t go to plan and soon “Polly” is caught up in a dangerous scheme of murder, mistaken identity and quite possibly hallucinating too - all while poor old “Ray” doesn’t know whether she is coming or going. Monroe exudes a degree of star quality here but for me, it is actually Peters who delivers the goods as the plot thickens and Cotton also contributes strongly as his character struggles to cope with the betrayal of a wife he is obviously still besotted by. The constant noise of the waterfall, the spray and the enclosed spaces in which much of this drama is set contrasts well with the vastness of the waterway, and though I struggled with Denis O’Dea as the policeman, I felt Henry Hathaway allowed this slightly claustrophobic drama to build to a solid denouement that seems sadly appropriate.

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