STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS - BLU

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• Release Year: 1946
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: Remastered in HD by Paramount Pictures — From a 4K scan of the 35mm Fine Grain! Barbara Stanwyck, the legendary actress who defined the film noir femme fatale in 1944’s Double Indemnity, returns to the role of the deadly seductress in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. When streetwise gambler Sam Masterson (Van Heflin, Shane) returns to his hometown of Iverstown, childhood sweetheart Martha (Stanwyck) assumes he has come to blackmail her over the suspicious death of her aunt, which he witnessed years earlier. Thus begins a dangerous game of cat and mouse, in which the wealthy and powerful Martha, whose husband is the local district attorney (the film debut of Kirk Douglas, I Walk Alone), tries to threaten, connive and seduce the truth from Sam’s clenched lips. Lizabeth Scott (Pitfall) co-stars as a hard-boiled woman on probation whose attempts to go straight land her, ironically, in Iverstown’s vortex of circling sharks. Directed by Lewis Milestone (The General Died at Dawn), scripted by Robert Rossen (The Hustler) and scored by Miklós Rózsa (Spellbound), Martha Ivers is a razor-witted dance of death that represents Hollywood suspense at its most sublimely entertaining.
• 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, Chuck Hamilton, Betty Hill, Robert Homans, Olin Howland, Gladden James, Payne B. Johnson, John Kellogg, Harry Leonard, Thomas Louden, Matt McHugh, Al Murphy, Bob Perry, Ricky Ricardi, Cyril Ring, Bert Roach, Tommy Ryan, Tom Schamp, Max Wagner, Lewis Milestone, Robert Rossen, John Patrick, Robert Riskin
• Director: Lewis Milestone
• Runtime: 1:56
• Company: Hal Wallis Productions, KL STUDIO CLASSICS, Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie