Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
27 July 1884, Clifton, Ontario, Canada
July 27, 1915 in Colorado, USA
23 September 1902, Berlin, Germany
1892, New York, USA
1 January 1909, Covington County, Mississippi, USA
October 10, 1902 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
17 June 1874, Columbus, Ohio, USA
May 30, 1907 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
November 10, 1891 in Streator, Illinois, USA
4 November 1884, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
10 June 1909, New York City, New York, USA
14 May 1906, Portland, Maine, USA
December 5, 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
8 January 1900, Hannah, North Dakota, USA
25 February 1925, Hollywood, California, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
April 18, 1904 in New York, USA
11 March 1871, Sacramento, California, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
June 29, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
October 25, 1876 in McConnelsville, Ohio, USA
19 July 1913, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA
December 13, 1892 in Clifton, Virginia, USA
19 November 1920, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
19 November 1889, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
2 January 1903, Pennsylvania, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
4 June 1899, South Dakota, USA
July 15, 2013
A feverish trance wrapped in a deadpan investigationFebruary 23, 2012
Not only one of Preminger's greatest, but one of the great noirs.October 23, 2007
A hypnotic and deathlessly interpretable experience.March 21, 2013
Preminger deals in facades, with how perception cheats us, right down to the ideal image of Laura as a portrait. (Cinémathèque Annotations on Film)December 17, 2016
It's one of the smartest of all noirs, and thus among the most enticingly savage and dangerous.February 23, 2012
Laura is still every bit as gripping in 2012.December 20, 2011
Few movies make you feel dirtier, and so perversely grateful for the pleasure.February 12, 2016
Laura (1944) is elegance incarnate in a genre known for its hard edge, the sleekest, silkiest noir of all.February 25, 2012
Preminger made darker, more characteristically noir films than this, but his only movie that's as good, or perhaps better, is Anatomy of a Murder.October 23, 2007
Less a crime film than a study in levels of obsession, Laura is one of those classic works that leave their subject matter behind and live on the strength of their seductive style.April 25, 2012
Masterpiece: with time, Preminger's second film has become richer in texture and deeper, more ambiguous in meaning than most noirs of the 1940s.April 20, 2009
A highly polished and debonair whodunit.