Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Ellen Berent Harland	Gene Tierney
Richard Harland	Cornel Wilde	½
Ruth Berent	Jeanne Crain
Russell Quinton	Vincent Price
Mrs. Berent	Mary Philips	-
Glen Robie	Ray Collins	-
Dr. Saunders	Gene Lockhart	-
Dr. Mason	Reed Hadley	-
Danny Harland	Darryl Hickman	-

Review

The beautiful Gene Tierney is a rather uncharismatic and dour seductress in this melodrama posing as noir, shot in wonderful Technicolor by cinematographer Leon Shamroy (Cleopatra), who won the third of his four Academy Awards for his efforts. Dramatically, however, the film is sluggish and unconvincing. Director John M. Stahl has no style or vision, and Tierney desperately lacks the depth and subtlety her very much concocted character requires. Her many lifeless passages with leading man Cornel Wilde keep the film well rooted in mediocrity at best. Only in the final courtroom scenes does the picture and the story come alive, thanks in large to a forceful performance by Vincent Price as a prosecutor and Tierney's former fiancé.