The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
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• Black & White
In Theaters : 24 July, 1946
DVD Release : 12 May, 1998 |
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers description
Barbara Stanwyck mesmerizes as a woman with a past, bound by a crime to a husband she despises. Kirk Douglas quickens our collective pulses in his film debut as her disappointing, dipsomaniac spouse, while Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott bring texture to supporting roles. Everything about this 1946 film noir is intriguing, from Lewis Milestone's direction to Edith Head's costumes to the edgy and troubled characters. It takes a long, hard look at guilt and the consequences of poorly planned actions. Well worth checking out, despite a wretched title. --Rochelle O'Gorman |
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Liz Steals It!
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Most would guess that any movie including Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas and Lizabeth Scott in the cast is guaranteed to please. In the case of "The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers", this disappointed reviewer certainly is in the minority. As SL opens, Martha (as a child) accidentally murders her domineering aunt. The child Douglas is a witness. (Heflin, the child, was not at the scene!). Years go by and the 3 adults are suddenly reunited when Heflin's car breaks down in their small eponymous town. Douglas and Stanwyck are married and run the place. They fear Heflin knows more than he really does and their suspicions boil. Heflin's own doubts percolate when he learns that an innocent man was framed in the murder. Meanwhile, Heflin meets that little scene-stealer, Lizabeth Scott. The classic good girl/bad girl is down on her luck-and just out of the cooler! Heflin, the designated good guy, defends her. How the mutual -and unnecessary-suspicions of Douglas/Stanwyck vs. Heflin/Scott play out could have been the basis for a classic noir suspencer. Instead SL turns into an overlong, overblown melodrama unworthy of all the talent on the screen. Director Lewis Milestone should never have allowed the run time to reach an absurd 115 minutes. Many noir classics are 90 minutes or fewer! The "resolution" would be laughable if not so serious and what could have been a happy fadeout merely falls flat. The worthiest feature of SL is Scott who walks over the cast with half the effort of the others. That good girl/bad girl gambit wins every time. Unless one is a fierce LS fan, fans should pass SL by.
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