Laura
A detective investigating the shotgun murder of a Manhattan advertising executive falls under the spell of her portrait and of the acid columnist who shaped her. From Vera Caspary's 1943 novel, absent from this archive; Preminger's cool, ambiguous handling made it a cornerstone of film noir and of cinema's fascination with the dead woman's image.
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