
Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. They fall in love and decide to get married. They love each other, in spite of their differences. Ellen's love for Richard is obsessive - possessive, and wants Richard all to herself.... (Full plot summary below)
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Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. They fall in love and decide to get married. They love each other, in spite of their differences. Ellen's love for Richard is obsessive - possessive, and wants Richard all to herself.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyOne of the most intensely cruel and lurid film noir ever made, John Stahl's excessive melodrama features Gene Tierney in an Oscar nominated performances as a cold-blooded murderess. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyMental illness never looked so seductive or bit with such a ferocious over-bite as from Gene Tierney's demented character. |
| New York PostLou LumenickStahl'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. |
| Slant MagazineDan CallahanA fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl's best-known film. |
| Time OutTom MilneStahl is totally in control, his precise pacing and compositions lending a persuasive dimension of amour fou, while Leon Shamroy's camerawork makes each image a purring pleasure on the eye. |
| TIME MagazineJames AgeeIt is a story of in-law trouble carried to awful extremes. But it is hard to work up any sustained sympathy for the uptight characters. |
| New YorkerPauline KaelGothic psychologizing melodrama, so preposterously full-blown and straight-faced that it's a juicy entertainment. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumMost splash-color, outrageous soap ever; Tierney is fabulous |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyThough the story is involving enough to make this film a classic, it is perhaps more rightly renowned for its Technicolor cinematography and original set and costume design. |
| User ReviewGal SAmazing - Gene Tierney's gorgeous nut case... |