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Niagara
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 4010232513809
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), Analog
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1953
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Editorial Review:
A neatly enjoyable thriller in the pseudo-Hitchcock mode, Niagara offers great fun on a variety of levels. It has film noir themes (albeit in Technicolor), oodles of location shooting, and Freudian symbolism run amok. And, of course, it has Marilyn Monroe as an unbelievably ripe femme fatale: married to unstable hubby Joseph Cotten and stuck in a cabin at Niagara Falls, she plots a watery escape. Jean Peters (a future Mrs. Howard Hughes) and froggy husband Casey Adams are dragged into the intrigue during their delayed honeymoon. Veteran open-air director Henry Hathaway squeezes the most out of the spectacular scenery and the nail-biting climax, slowing down only for traveloguey interludes; the dialogue, pretty racy for 1953, comes from the civilized pen of producer-writer Charles Brackett (Billy Wilder's longtime partner). The baby-doll murmuring and lazy lounging in motel bed sheets is, well, all Marilyn. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not bad, and with a strange, artificial creation of breasts, lipstick and sleepy eyelids to look at
Niagara, in my view, is a second-rate A movie struggling with only partial success to be a first-rate B movie. What it needs is Audrey Totter as Rose Loomis instead of Marilyn Monroe and Charles McGraw as George Loomis instead of Joseph Cotton. We'll keep Jean Peters but let's ditch her husband, especially when played by an actor named Casey Adams as an irritating clone of Robert Cummings. Rose Loomis is a tramp, and a dangerous one, but Monroe for my money is just giving us a caricature of a tramp, ... Read More
Rating:  - Worth Watching Again and Again!
Filmed in beautiful technicolor, this thriller is like a Hickcock movie without his profile to find. Marilyn Monroe played an unfaithful wife who met her just end; like Virginia Barnes, she lathered on the bright red lipstick. She wore that stuff to bed even her makup was impecable. Even in the hospital, she was fully made up, shades of Doris Day. She sure could walk funny in her skin-tight clothes. The falls themselves was the star of the movie.
In the years since this was filmed, ... Read More
Rating: - Above average thriller
This is a fairly good thriller, despite the flaws in the plot and despite some atrocious acting, for which the director is to blame. The final scene is as thrilling as any "chase" ever filmed.
The plot flaws are by way of coincidences. Joseph Cotton just happens to show up in the oddest places where Jean Peters can see him. And he apparently managed to move around over a large area on foot but fast. In fact, the plot revolves around the encounters between Cotton and Peters. There is ... Read More
Rating: - Seductive Thriller. . . .
"Niagara" is virtually the only Marilyn Monroe movie that explored the seamy, unsavory side of her Blonde Bombshell glamour. Undulating across the screen in a flaming red dress, Monroe plays a conniving, unrepentent adulteress with a jealous, near-psychotic husband (Joseph Cotten) shadowing her every move. Set up in the idyllic (and ironic) honeymoon atmosphere of Niagara Falls, this thriller owes a great debt to the suspenseful, tales-of-the-unexpected style of Alfred Hitchcock. Aside from the provocative ... Read More
Rating:  - Mesmerizing Moroe
Monroe as a sympathetic villainess. No dumb blonde characature, rather, a silken lusty unfaithful wife plotting the demise of her mentally unstable husband. No spoiler here... let's just say all does not go as planned.
Monroe sings exquisitely "Kiss" .... this scene alone reveals Marilyn's genius of seduction and performance. She owns the celluloid, the lens, the viewer. It may surprise you to see her in this light. The scene is short, hypnotic, and flawlessly executed.
Monroe steals ... Read More
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