Midweek double feature

Took me a long time to find a good enough double feature - first is a woman's film, supposedly, but with great reviews, second also has great reviews but is a violent guys' film about a psycho cop.  Only short reviews this time round.

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married. But her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both, and everyone else around them:

The melodrama of which Stahl was one of the masters throughout the thirties had muted,probably because the importance of the film noir in the following decade."Leave her to heaven' is as much a film noir as a melodrama.What's particularly puzzling is the color. Like some Lang, Hitchcock or Tourneur works ("secret beyond the door" "spellbound" or "cat people" for instance), this is par excellence a Freudian movie.  The heroine has never solved her Oedipus complex :she has always been in love with her father - dig the scene when Gene Tierney rides her horse as she throws her father's ashes away. The love she could not make with her father, she will make through a third party: a husband who resembles her dad.

This is the last in a series of films that Otto Preminger made as a director-for-hire for "Twentieth Century Fox" in the 1940s. The series includes "Laura (1944)," which also stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, "Fallen Angel (1945)," and "Whirlpool (1950):"

#  If all "film noirs" were this good, we would have a lot more of them. If someone were to ask me what is one I would tell them to go see this movie as a perfect example. This a 50 year old movie that doesn't feel old. In other words, nothing sounds corny and stupid as others of the time. Dana Andrews had a real hard edge on his shoulder much different than in The Best Years Of Our Lives. Without giving anything away, I recommend seeing this movie "cold" like I did and be thoroughly entertained.