Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American Technicolor film noir starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Ray Collins, and Chill Wills. The story was adapted for the screen by Jo Swerling from the best selling novel of the same name by Ben Ames Williams and directed by John M. Stahl.
Novelist Richard Harland Cornel Wilde returns to his remote island home, called Back of the Moon, after two years in prison. His friend and attorney, Ray Collins, narrates how Richard meets beautiful socialite Ellen Berent Gene Tierney on a train. She falls in love with him based mainly on his close resemblance to her recently deceased father, to whom she was obsessively attached.Ellen is previously engaged to an ambitious Boston attorney, Russell Quinton Vincent Price, who begs her not to marry Richard because of the bad press it would bring to his upcoming political campaign. However, she jilts Russell and marries Richard, who at first is fascinated not only with Ellens beauty but her exotic and intense manner. It gradually becomes apparent however that Ellen is pathologically jealous towards any other person and activity that her husband cares about. ........
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