Starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips Directed By: John M. Stahl Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 22, 2005 Running Time: 110 minutes Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1945
Description: Leave Her To Heaven is a stylish psychological thriller starring Gene Tierney as Ellen, the stunningly beautiful wife of handsome writer Richard Harland, played by Cornel Wilde. Ellen panics as her perfect marriage unravels and Harland's work and invalid brother demand more and more of his attention. Her husband becomes unnerved by her compulsive and jealous behavior. And when the people close to him are murdered, one by one, it is obvious that this dream marriage has become a full-fledged nightmare. Based on the best-selling novel by Ben Ames Williams. This film won the Oscar(r) for Best Cinematography (Color) and received three other Academy Award(r) nominations: Best Actress for Gene Tierney, Best Sound Recording, and Best Art Direction (Color)/Interior Decoration.
Amazon.com: Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two.
Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. --Richard T. Jameson
Leave her to Heaven This is a wonderful old movie, with greater substance than many we see today. Enjoy it as I did.
leave her to heaven i got the dvd for my mother,she loves it,she said it is a great movie
"She loved her father too much" Here's a quick note, if an engaged woman starts beaming about how much you remind her of her dead father, breaks her engagement within a few days, and tries to get you to marry her about a couple weeks(if that) of knowing each other, RUN!
There are two spectrums regarding the nightmare wife. One is is completely uncaring of her spouse and becomes a apathetic shrew, the other side is the excessively jealous wife who turns any other contact into a nightmare. Ellen was the latter. In her deranged mind, she's replacing the father whom she smothered and lead to an early grave, and her new husband is the replacement, and gets the same treatment as she destroys anyone who dares take his attention away from her. Just because someone is gone doesn't mean they can't still destroy you.
The plot is brilliantly paced, the final scene satisfying, and the acting(for the most part) is top notch. I was actually quite surprised at how dark this movie was given when it was made, so don't let the Technicolor fool you.
One Of The Best Movies Of All Time!!! A Must Own!!! This is one of the best movies of all time! It is sad and suspenseful and will have you at the edge of your seat! Great characters, excellent cast of actors. A definite must own!
"Ellen always wins." Lovely Ellen (Gene Tierney) meets handsome Richard (Cornel Wilde) and is instantly attracted to him because he is so like her late, beloved father. Although she's engaged to someone else, she marries Richard just days after meeting him. Her neurotic possessiveness means she can't allow anyone else near him - not even his disabled brother or unborn child - and now she's worried that her sister (Jeanne Crain) is in love with him. When her obsession finally drives him away, Ellen has one more trick up her sleeve; she'll punish both Richard and her sister from the grave.
This surprisingly dark and intense drama is made even more effective by its three beautiful stars and stunning location photography. Ellen goes from being odd to certifiably insane; it was unnerving to have the leading lady be the villain in 1945 and it still is. She is a master manipulator, callously offing her competition while looking like a fashion-plate. Tierney was nominated for Best Actress for her performance, which gives me chills everytime I watch. This is an unusual story, beautifully filmed and perfectly acted.
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