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Leave Her to Heaven

1945

John M. Stahl

Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price ...

7.6

3,730

Drama. Mystery. Film noir Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of anyone who he pays the slightest attention to. In order to be completely alone with him, she convinces him to live in a isolated, but beautiful lakeside home in a spot called "Back of the Moon. " She dismisses the local handyman and then ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Melissa Anderson Village Voice	"Tierney's Ellen Berent [is] one of cinema's most chilling psychopaths"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A piece of cheap fiction done up in Technicolor and expensive sets."	NEG
United States	William Brogdon Variety	"Has emotional power in the jealousy theme but it hasn't been as forcefully interpreted by the leads as it could have been in more histrionically capable hands."	NEU
United States	Dan Callahan Slant	"A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl's best-known film."	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Stahl's use of space and the performances in Leave Her to Heaven...suggest he was at least the equal of the much-exalted Sirk as an artist of melodrama."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Gothic psychologizing melodrama, so preposterously full-blown and straight-faced that it's a juicy entertainment."	POS

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