Watch: Leave Her to Heaven 1945 123movies, Full Movie Online – Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. They fall in love and decide to get married. They love each other, in spite of their differences. Ellen’s love for Richard is obsessive – possessive, and wants Richard all to herself. Richard learns to what extent Ellen will go to get what she wants,.
Plot: A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife’s insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen’s emotions become uncontrollable.
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Yikes, talk about an internecine plot! This is certainly a story that requires concentration as the machinations of “Ellen” (Gene Tierney) take their toll on just about everyone around her. She meets the young writer “Richard” (Cornel Wilde) on a train when he encounters this enigmatic young woman who happens to be reading his latest novel. A whirlwind romance ensues that sees her dump her fianceé, marry “Richard” and return to his cottage along with his crippled brother “Danny” (Darryl Hickman). The green eyed monster soon rears it’s ugly head – “Ellen” isn’t the sharing type, and when “Danny” is inexplicably drowned they move home, she has a miscarriage and then they split up. Still determined, “Ellen” plots a dastardly scheme to ensure that his new friend “Ruth” (Jeanne Crain) ends up in the electric chair. The plot is sophisticated and presented in a well-paced and intriguing fashion with Wilde, Crain and especially Tierney on top form delivering a tightly written adaptation of Ben Ames Williams’ cleverly constructed story of lust, envy and manipulation. It’s interesting to see Cornel Wilde take on a more substantial role. He still has that gleam in his eye but he takes to the grittier part of his role convincingly. The always reliable Alfred Newman supplies a score that also chips in well as the denouement is anything but straightforward. Rarely seen nowadays, but certainly well worth sitting down for.
She was a monster!Beautiful Ellen Berent unashamedly jilts her fiancé, Russell Quinton, for writer Richard Harland. Her attraction to Harland being that he reminds her of her deceased father. But soon it becomes evident that Ellen is very possessive and literally will do what it takes to keep all away from her newly obtained beau.
Director John M. Stahl and writer Jo Swerling adapt from the novel written by Ben Ames Williams. Filmed in luscious Technicolor by Leon Shamroy (Oscar winning), Leave Her To Heaven proves two indisputable things. One is that to craft a searing film noir it doesn’t have to be filmed in monochrome, the other is that it’s proof positive that Gene Tierney (Ellen) was more than just a gorgeously effective face.
Tierney of course needs no introduction to fans of film noir, her appearance and quality of performance in the previous years release of Laura ensures that. While to a lesser degree the mixed Whirlpool four years later also cements her status in the corridors of darkness. But an argument can be made for this being her crowning glory, both in terms of her effervescent beauty and of the performance she gives (Oscar nominated). It’s not outrageous to say that the film achieves greater heights because of her portrayal as Ellen, a character that is the epitome of the femme fatale. Tierney has this beguiling knack of shifting from charm personified to outright evil in a heart beat – and amazingly as Ellen grows more warped and jealous, Tierney grows ever more sexy. It’s not just Cornel Wilde’s duped Richard Harland falling into her disturbed web, it’s any watching human being with a pulse! Even as the shockingly cold moments unravel, and there are some truly chilling ones for sure, Ellen draws us in with a lusty fascination that’s rather unique.
Credit too must go to Stahl’s direction, perhaps a director that unfairly sits in the lounge of the unsung, he weaves his story adroitly, setting up plot roads to keep us intrigued, only to then shift focus back on the dame holding court for characters and viewers alike. Wilde does fine, his mannered approach work works well off of Tierney’s show stealing turn while in support we get pretty as a picture Jeanne Crain as the crucial sister character, Ruth Berent, while Vincent Price – elegant as always – does his profession proud in the small but important role of the jilted Quinton.
Leave Her To Heaven is a must for noir fans, a must for Tierney fans, and definitely a production to get the best out of your High Definition TV. 8.5/10
What’s the matter with Ellen?
Does anyone else have a list of films they watch over and over? Well, this one is on my list. I don’t know why I keep returning to this film, the story is absurd, and like everyone else says Cornel Wilde’s acting is mediocre, and the courtroom scene is over-the-top weird. What makes the film work, however, is the interaction among the characters as they all try to deal with the elephant in the room: the alternately sweet-and-psychotic Ellen, a nucleus of madness around which everyone else orbits. From the very beginning of the film, it’s obvious that she’s messed up. What sane woman stares at a strange man on a train for ten minutes?Ellen is a complex character whose indiscernible, deep-rooted problems occasionally bubble to the surface; you never quite see her completely, she’s like a ghost. When Quinton arrives on a rainy night bringing his drama, none of the people in the house seem surprised; apparently it’s business as usual around the unpredictable Ellen. When she disappears for hours at a time in the darkness, they shrug and go to bed; it’s just how Ellen is. Too bad Richard doesn’t pick up on any of those clues, he thinks they’re charming affectations.
By far the most disturbing scene in the film is when she takes Danny swimming; the deplorable betrayal of trust never fails to shock me, and you finally realize how inhuman she is. It’s difficult to reconcile her radiant beauty with her heartless cruelty, but this is one of the strengths of the film: things are not what they seem. As a furious Ellen feels her husband slipping away from her, she spins an elaborate web to trap her sister; it’s an ugly and spiteful way for Ellen to check out, as she drags everyone down in flames along with her. It’s the mother I feel most sorry for, her shame at her daughter’s behavior permeates the film.
I feel that this movie is in a class by itself, and surely ahead of its time because of its edgy subject matter and odd characterizations. The title of the film sounds like a light-hearted romp, which leads me to speculate that this is Hollywood’s first black comedy; I always laugh at the scene in the doctor’s office, where within the span of ten seconds Ellen completely changes her opinion about Danny, the moment Richard walks in the door.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Director John M. Stahl
Writer Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams
Actors Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Technicolor Three-Strip Camera
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,031 m (11 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm