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Niagara is a american film of genre Drama directed by Henry Hathaway released in USA on 17 february 1953 with Marilyn Monroe

Niagara (1953)

Niagara
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Released in USA 17 february 1953
Length 1h32
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Noir,    Crime
Rating69% 3.497823.497823.497823.497823.49782

Niagara is an American 1953 film noir thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway, and starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter.

Unlike other film noirs of the time, Niagara was filmed in "Three-Strip" Technicolor (one of the last films to be made at Fox in this format, as Fox was in the process of converting to CinemaScope, and which is mutually-exclusive with "Three-Strip", but not with Eastmancolor), and was one of Fox's biggest box office hits of the year.

Monroe was given first billing in Niagara which elevated her to star status. Her following two films of that year, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Jane Russell, and How to Marry a Millionaire, with Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, were even bigger successes.

Synopsis

Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters) on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe). Rose tells them that George is asleep at last, and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital. The Cutlers politely accept another, less desirable cabin, and so the two couples become acquainted.

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