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Features: DVD, English, Spanish, Subtitled
Nominated for five Oscars, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy journalist (Clifton Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But shortly before her wedding to a dashing young playboy, she is found murdered. Stirred by her portrait, the detective (Dana Andrews) assigned to her case finds that he, too, is strangely under Laura's spell. With its haunting, romantic score by David Raskin, this film from director Otto Preminger is a renowned example of 1940's film noir. Includes original theatrical trailer.
"...one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, classic film noirs ever made." Tim Dirks, The Greatest Films
"The performances are top-notch, credible, fascinating...a crime story connoisseur's dish." Hollywood Reporter
"Classic mystery..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
A classic noirish mystery with a consummate ensemble of actors. Dana Andrews adroitly plays the detective who delves into the murder of the stunningly beautiful Laura, with whom it seems everyone, including the detective himself, is in love. But Webb steals the show as the titular ingenue's creepily elegant social mentor, Waldo Lydecker. Based on the novel by Vera Caspary. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director. Academy Awards: Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography.
Plot Summary
Classic film about a detective who, while investigating the murder of a beautiful woman, falls in love with her likeness in a painting. But was the woman really murdered?
| Features | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 9/11/2007 |
| Running Time: 88 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1944 | | Catalog ID: 2006082 | | UPC: 00024543060826 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1945) |  | Joseph LaShelle, Winner, Best Cinematography, Black-And-White | | | Leland Fuller, Nominee, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-And-White | | | Otto Preminger, Nominee, Best Director | | | Clifton Webb, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor | | | Jay Dratler, et al., Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times
"...That LAURA continues to weave a spell -- and it does -- is a tribute to style over sanity....The music lends a haunted, nostalgic, regretful cast to everything it plays under..." 01/20/2002 p.5USA Today
...This all-timer made a standard of the title tune, launched co-star Clifton Webb's screen career....[and] it also gives Vincent Price and Judith Anderson meaty suspect roles..." 03/12/1993 p.3D Entertainment Weekly
"[T]he whodunit still gleams like a pearl-handled pistol..." 03/18/2005 p.50 Los Angeles Times
"[A] delectable romantic thriller..." 04/03/2005 p.E15 Sight and Sound
"Preminger's waspish masterpiece, which swings from high society noir to romantic mystery two thirds of the way through." 04/01/2006 p.90 The Motion Picture Guide 10 of 10
Undoubtedly one of the most stylish and taut murder mysteries ever put on film Laura presents stunning performances from Tierney, Andrews, Price and Anderson. And, in one of the most delectable roles of his career, Webb...
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