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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Why this pick
Like The Suspect, it turns respectable surfaces and restrained longing into noir tension, with a morally compromised past steadily tightening around its characters.
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MOVIE1944 1h 25m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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The Woman in the Window
Why this pick
Another 1940s noir in which an ordinary, restrained man is pulled from routine into escalating danger; its tension grows through guilt, chance, and mounting pressure.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Philip Marshall (Charles Laughton) is a kind, henpecked accountant who strikes up a friendship with Mary Gray (Ella Raines), a young stenographer who had approached him looking for work. He gradually finds himself falling in love with her, but keeps the relationship platonic.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Charles Laughton
Philip Marshall
Ella Raines
Mary Gray
Stanley Ridges
Insp. Huxley
Henry Daniell
Gilbert Simmons
Dean Harens
John Marshall