ThrillerCrime

Niagara

- A raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!

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.

Release Date : 1953-01-26

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Rose Loomis

Original Name : Marilyn Monroe

Gender : Female

Character Name : George Loomis

Original Name : Joseph Cotten

Gender : Male

Character Name : Polly Cutler

Original Name : Jean Peters

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ray Cutler

Original Name : Max Showalter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Inspector Starkey

Original Name : Denis O'Dea

Gender : Male

Character Name : Patrick

Original Name : Richard Allan

Gender : Male

Character Name : J.C. Kettering

Original Name : Don Wilson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Kettering

Original Name : Lurene Tuttle

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mr. Qua

Original Name : Russell Collins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boatman

Original Name : Will Wright

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. McGrand

Original Name : Minerva Urecal

Gender : Female

Character Name : Taxi Driver

Original Name : Harry Carey, Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Original Name : Henry Beckman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Bill Coontz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Ellis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Customs Officer (uncredited)

Original Name : Neil Fitzgerald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer (uncredited)

Original Name : Gloria Gordon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Carillon Tower Guide (uncredited)

Original Name : George Ives

Gender : Male

Character Name : Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : Arch Johnson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Lester Matthews

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sam (uncredited)

Original Name : Sean McClory

Gender : Male

Character Name : Detective (uncredited)

Original Name : Patrick O'Moore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Husband (uncredited)

Original Name : Tom Reynolds

Gender : Male

Character Name : Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Original Name : Willard Sage

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Bert Stevens

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wife at Bus Station

Original Name : Nina Varela

Gender : Female

Character Name : Guide (uncredited)

Original Name : Gene Wesson

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

The Belles and the Bells. Niagara Falls, so often a place of honeymoon love is the setting for this engrossing and gripping thriller directed with tight astuteness by the brilliant Henry Hathaway. Hathaway works from a screenplay collectively written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard L. Breen. It stars Joseph Cotton, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Peters, Max Showalter (as Casey Adams), Denis O'Dea and Richard Allan. Music is by Sol Kaplan and cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Plot wise it's very simple, the core essence that of an unfaithful wife scheming against her husband - thus garnering peril ire from the jealously unstable man - but simplicity of plot does not stop this from reaching craftily high peaks. Hathaway and MacDonald breathtakingly weave the splendid location into the unfolding story, something that simultaneously brings out the sensual beauty of the two lovely leading ladies, with the sense of danger still always as a constant factor. The framing of man made structures such as staircases and the bell tower are readily given a noir vibe, again enhancing a story pungent with human fallibilities and dripping wet metaphors. Now that the film is readily available in restored home formats, one gets to see the sublime work of MacDonald. The Technicolour photography has a lurid broody sheen to it, thus enhancing the disquiet mood pulsing away in the story and that of Monroe's sensuality within it. Peters (a true classic beauty), in what is the toughest part, doesn't let her character become secondary to Monroe's (even more impressive given Monroe's fine work and Hathaway's lingering usage of her), so much so that when the edge of the seat finale arrives we the audience are fully immersed in it. While Cotten as the tortured husband to Monroe's adulterous wife nails the duality of the character for maximum returns. Nature's ferocious marvel and the raw power of sex and its destructive powers comes crashing together in this early 50s Hitchcockian like diamond. 8/10