Leave Her to Heaven

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Leave Her to Heaven

1945,

1h 51m,

Crime/

Drama

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85%

68 Reviews

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86%

2,500+ Ratings

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68 Reviews

86%

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2,500+ Ratings

While on a train, writer Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) strikes up a relationship with the gorgeous Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney). Ellen quickly becomes obsessed with Richard and abandons her fiancé, Russell Quinton (Vincent Price), to be with him. The couple rushes into marriage, with both of them caught up in romance and Richard intrigued by Ellen's intensity. Only after settling into marriage, however, does Richard realize that she is psychotically jealous and highly unstable.

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Critics 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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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Mar 25, 2024

5/5

This demented relationship drama by John M Stahl, starring the golden era actress Gene Tierney, is the original Fatal Attraction but better, deeper and darker.

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Eleanor Wilson

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Sep 29, 2021

Leave Her to Heaven is a well-done picture and rates as good screen entertainment.

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Wanda Hale

New York Daily News

Sep 29, 2021

3.5/4

Director Stahl has certainly made the most out of the book and done well directing the young players.

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Sean Burns

Crooked Marquee

Aug 19, 2024

Oft-befuddled critic Bosley Crowther called the film ‘a piece of cheap fiction done up in Technicolor and expensive sets,’ as if that isn’t what’s so awesome about it.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Aug 5, 2022

Part Technicolor film noir and part dark romantic melodrama with a psychotic beauty at its center, John Stahl’s gorgeous Leave Her to Heaven is the original Fatal Attraction as a lush melodrama in a picture-perfect world of affluence...

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Virginia Wright

Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)

Sep 29, 2021

Overlong In the telling and continuously melodramatic, Leave Her to Heaven is nevertheless a plausible version of the book.

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Albus S

Dec 13, 2018

Probably good in it's day, but just too dated at this point, and wasn't impressed with the acting. It SEEMED like acting ... stilted ... not good,

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Albus M

Jul 10, 2017

A strange little film with unreasonably high T-metering that moves slowly to a near-the-end courtroom scene with the most annoying Vincent Price as prosecutor performance (& jilted old love) imaginable - & where the defense attorney did nothing to quiet him. Women like this exist, for sure - & stalker men - but not quite this cracked. Leave her to the devil. Really, the results of the old 3-strip Technicolor process was more interesting to look at than the film, never a good sign. And a quirky role for Gene Tierney. + Trivia: Amazing that Jeanne Crain went on to have 7 children!

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John M. Stahl

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Gene Tierney

Ellen Berent Harland

Cornel Wilde

Richard Harland

Jeanne Crain

Ruth Berent

Vincent Price

Russell Quinton

Mary Philips

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Synopsis

While on a train, writer Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) strikes up a relationship with the gorgeous Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney). Ellen quickly becomes obsessed with Richard and abandons her fiancé, Russell Quinton (Vincent Price), to be with him. The couple rushes into marriage, with both of them caught up in romance and Richard intrigued by Ellen's intensity. Only after settling into marriage, however, does Richard realize that she is psychotically jealous and highly unstable.

Director: John M. Stahl
Producer: William A. Bacher
Screenwriter: Jo Swerling
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 20, 1945, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 10, 2018
Runtime: 1h 51m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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