Niagara (film)
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| Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
| Produced by | Charles Brackett |
| Screenplay by | Charles Brackett Richard L. Breen Walter Reisch |
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Marilyn Monroe Joseph Cotten Jean Peters Max Showalter |
| Narrated by | Joseph Cotten |
| Music by | Sol Kaplan |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Edited by | Barbara McLean |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$ 1,670,000 |
| Box office | $2.35 million (US) |
Niagara is an American 1953 film noir thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway, and starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter. It was one of Fox's biggest box office hits of the year.
Unlike other film noirs of the time, Niagara was filmed in "three-strip" Technicolor (one of the last films to be made at Fox in that format, as a few months later Fox began converting to CinemaScope, which had compatibility problems with "three-strip" but not with Eastmancolor).
Monroe was given first billing in Niagara which elevated her to star status. Her following two films of that year, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Jane Russell, and How to Marry a Millionaire, with Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, were even bigger successes.
Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters), on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe). Rose tells them that George is asleep at last, and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital after his war service in Korea. The Cutlers politely accept another, less desirable cabin, and so the two couples become acquainted.
George and Rose have a troubled marriage. She is younger and very attractive. He is jealous, depressed and irritable. While touring the falls the following day, Polly sees Rose passionately kissing another man, Patrick, her lover. That evening, the Cutlers witness George's rage. Rose joins an impromptu party and requests that a particular record be played. George storms out of their cabin and breaks the record, because he suspects the song has a secret meaning for Rose. Seeing George has cut his hand with the record, Polly visits his room to apply bandages to his injury. George confides that he was a sheep rancher whose luck turned for the worse after he fell in love and married Rose, whom he met when she was a barmaid.
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