Niagara (1953 film)

Niagara is an American 1953 film noir thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway, and starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter. It was one of Foxs biggest box office hits of the year.

Ray and Polly Cutler Showalter and Peters on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis Cotten and Monroe. Rose tells them that George is asleep at last, and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital after his war service in Korea. The Cutlers politely accept another, less desirable cabin, and so the two couples become acquainted.George and Rose have a troubled marriage. She is younger and very attractive. He is jealous, depressed and irritable. While touring the falls the following day, Polly sees Rose passionately kissing another man, Patrick, her lover. That evening the Cutlers witness Georges rage. Rose joins an impromptu party and requests the playing of a particular record, at which George storms out of their cabin and breaks the record, because he suspects the song has a secret meaning for Rose. Seeing George has cut his hand with the record, Polly visits his room to apply bandages to his injury. George confides that he was a former sheep rancher whose luck turned for the worse after he fell in love and married Rose who he met when she was a barmaid. ........

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