The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7400 kbps | 6.6Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:56:00 | USA | Drama, Film-Noir
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7400 kbps | 6.6Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:56:00 | USA | Drama, Film-Noir
A ruthless, domineering woman is married to an alcoholic D.A., her childhood companion who is the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt seventeen years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman, Janis Wilson, Ann Doran, Frank Orth, James Flavin, Mickey Kuhn, Charles D. Brown, Gene Ashley, Walter Baldwin, Bill Burt, Gino Corrado, Catherine Craig, Kernan Cripps, Sayre Dearing, Kay Deslys, Tom Dillon, William Duray, Blake Edwards, Tom Fadden, C. Hamilton, Betty Hill, Robert Homans, Olin Howland, Gladden James
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the prime mover of the small Pennsylvania town of Iverston. Martha lives in a huge mansion with her DA husband, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), an alcoholic weakling. No one knows just why Martha and Walter tolerate one another….but Sam Masterson (Van Heflin), an Iverstown boy who returns to town, may just have a clue. At least that's what Martha thinks when Sam asks Walter to intervene in the case of Toni Marachek (Lizabeth Scott), who has been unjustly imprisoned. It seems that, as a young boy, Sam was in the vicinity when Martha's rich aunt (Judith Anderson) met with her untimely demise. What does Sam know? And what dark, horrible secret binds Martha and Walter together? Directed by Lewis Milestone, and based on John Patrick's Oscar-nominated original story, Love Lies Bleeding, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers creates in Martha a unique and interesting, driven, obsessed, and spoiled character, but one not without sympathy. Barbara Stanwyck is outstanding as Martha, with her predatory smile and sharp, manicured nails. Kirk Douglas is surprisingly convincing as a lost, sad, weak man, who loves his wife, but is unable to gain her respect. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers eventually lapsed into public domain and became a ubiquitous presence on cable television.
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this movie is one of those lost gems. barbara stanwyck and kirk douglas do a great job but they are not the reason this is a great gem. van heflin (of shane) and lizabeth scott are superb and in some ways overshadow kirk douglas in his screen debut and stanwyck. lizabeth smolders and pouts her way to perfection, what a babe!!. lizabeth should have been a huge star especially in the film noir genre. both van heflin and lizabeth scott are massively underrated and typically not remembered. that is a shame since they both were fine actors, that is the present generations loss. the plot is superb and throws some nice curves that keeps you on your toes.
~ jeff
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
