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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   2,372 votes
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Director:
John M. Stahl
Writers:
Jo Swerling (screenplay)
Ben Ames Williams (novel)
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Release Date:
20 December 1945 (USA) more
Tagline:
Hers was the deadliest of the seven sins.
Plot:
Richard Harland, a young writer, meets a beautiful woman, Ellen, on a train. They fall in love and are married... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Leave Her To Heaven Movie Review
 (From MoviesOnline. 4 July 2009, 8:00 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Color Time Travel - A film that must be experienced on the Big Screen more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Gene Tierney ... Ellen Berent Harland

Cornel Wilde ... Richard Harland
Jeanne Crain ... Ruth Berent

Vincent Price ... Russell Quinton
Mary Philips ... Mrs. Berent
Ray Collins ... Glen Robie

Gene Lockhart ... Dr. Saunders
Reed Hadley ... Dr. Mason
Darryl Hickman ... Danny Harland
Chill Wills ... Leick Thome
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Guy Beach ... Sheriff (unconfirmed)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Filming Locations:
Bass Lake, California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The title is taken from a line from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". more
Goofs:
Continuity: The car that picks up Harland, the Berents, and Glen Robie at the railroad station in New Mexico also appears in the driveway at the hospital at Warm Springs parked right in front of Harland and Ellen. more
Quotes:
Mrs. Berent: There's nothing wrong with Ellen. It's just that she loves too much. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "M*A*S*H: House Arrest (#3.18)" (1975) more
Soundtrack:
Chickens in the Garden more

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10 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Color Time Travel - A film that must be experienced on the Big Screen, 26 April 2008
10/10
Author: ted-129 from San Francisco

No one can watch this without remembering Gene Tierney's searing blue eyes, Jeanne Crain's face of innocence, or Cornel Wilde (lightyears from The Naked Prey) here looking like a photo of Pierre & Gilles come to life. It's 110 minutes of color-time-travel basking in the surreally saturated Technicolor palette of the mid 40's.

For those who have been denied the experience of watching the recently restored version with a rapt audience on a big screen as happened April 26, 2008 at San Francisco's Castro Theatre, I can only hope you'll contact a film preservation-minded theater in your area.

Though I've watched this film on DVD, nothing prepared me for the impact of the big screen. The closeups alone will take your breath away.

Is it melodrama or is it noir?--leave that to Heaven!

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