Laura

Laura (USA) | (98 min; 1945; b/w; English) | ( Click here to watch )
Director: Otto Preminger

Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-white, Academy Awards 1945; Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1999; and Photoplay Awards for Best Performance and Best Picture, Photoplay Awards 1945

In one of the most celebrated 1940s film noirs, Manhattan detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the murder of Madison Avenue executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) in her fashionable apartment. On the trail of her murderer, McPherson quizzes Laura's arrogant best friend, gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) and her comparatively mild fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). As the detective grows obsessed with the case, he finds himself falling in love with the dead woman.