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- 1953
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
- 1953
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
Summary As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
Written By: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen
- 1953
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
- 1953
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 32 m
Niagara
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Summary As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
Written By: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
70
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Joseph Cotten as a killer, Monroe as his adulterous wife slithering under the sheets and Jean Peters as the unfortunate witness in this taut Niagara Falls thriller. [09 Jun 2006, p.C7]
Everyone's honeymoon haven at one time, Niagara Falls, is the deceptive setting for this offbeat, absorbing film with bowstring-tight direction from Hathaway and superb performances from Cotten as a jealous husband and Monroe as his neurotic wife.
Hathaway draws splendid performances from his cast and maintains a taut, spicy tempo that grips the attention consistently. Miss Monroe turns in her finest acting performance yet, adding to her acting laurels by playing a sexy tart with a provocative abandon that has a powerful impact.
An action director, Hathaway isn’t quite at home with this claustrophobic, motel-bound story of adultery and murder, but he gives it his all, most famously in the Freudian rampage that climaxes the film.
This isn't a good movie but it's compellingly tawdry and nasty -- the only movie that explored the mean, unsavory potential of Marilyn Monroe's cuddly, infantile perversity.
Hitch would have played it for laughs; this is a little overwrought, but steamy enough. [22 Apr 2006, p.53]
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