Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 42: Mon Feb 11

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone, 1946): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.40pm


This 35mm presentation, which is also being shown on February 24th, is part of the Barbara Stanwyck season. Full details here.

Time Out review:
Superb performance by Stanwyck (as coldly calculating as she was in Double Indemnity) as the apex of a traumatic triangle comprising the two men who (maybe) saw her club her wealthy aunt to death when they were children. Now a tycoon in her own right, bonded to one of the witnesses (Kirk Douglas) in a guilt-ridden marriage, she finds the other (Van Heflin) resurfacing in her life as both promise of escape and threat to security - and the stagnant waters begin to stir again with murderous crosscurrents of fear and desire. A gripping film noir, all the more effective for being staged by Lewis Milestone as a steamy romantic melodrama.
Tom Milne

Here (and above) is the trailer.


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