Niagara
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Cast
Marilyn Monroe
as Rose Loomis
Joseph Cotten
as George Loomis
Jean Peters
as Polly Cutler
Max Showalter
as Ray Cutler
Denis O'Dea
as Inspector Starkey
Richard Allan
as Patrick
Don Wilson
as J.C. Kettering
Lurene Tuttle
as Mrs. Kettering
Russell Collins
as Mr. Qua
Will Wright
as Boatman
Reviews
John Chard
The Belles and the Bells. Niagara Falls, so often a place of honeymoon love is the setting for this engrossing and gripping thriller directed with tight astuteness by the brilliant Henry Hathaway. Hathaway works from a screenplay collectively written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard...
CinemaSerf
Right from the outset, this has the look of an Hitchcock mystery to it. Indeed, the opening bars of Sol Kaplan’s score sound very Herrmann-esque as we open with some grand scale photography of the Falls. That’s where we meet newlyweds “Polly” (Jean Peters) and “Ray” (Max Showalter) who have arrived ...
