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Waste of time

One of my all time favorites.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Blistering performances.

a quirky movie its a testimony to human capacity for ruthlessness and Marilyn Monroe does well to play the part of a woman only concerned with her interests but one thing continues to puzzle me about the movie I found on the street how does cotton figure out the success message of the bells ringing their what they say is their special tune? I watched three times but still couldn't see it shown how he figures it out ,in summary one of the best movies ever made i ONLY JUST SAW IT FOR FIRST TIME EVEN THOUGH I'm 65 ID OF NEVER SAW IT IF i HADNT FOUND ON STREET i WATCH MOVIES RARELLY expected this to be junk but was surprised how unique it was

Niagara is a Technicolor film noir. The plot is simply not strong enough to be tense or give it an air of mystery.Director Henry Hathaway is left with making the most of the location, Niagara Falls and starlet Marilyn Monroe in various sultry costumes to make the movie mesmerising. Apart from that the rest of the film is poor and is certainly far from being even be rated as good never mind a classic.Polly and Ray Cutler (Jean Peters and Max Showalter) are newly-weds on a delayed honeymoon to Niagara Falls. They meet meet Rose and George Loomis (Marily Monroe and Joseph Cotten) who are still in the Cutlers reserved cabin, it seems George is a bit brittle and neurotic. It is stated that he has been depressed because of his experience in the war.Polly and Ray stay in a nearby cabin and when venturing to the falls Polly sees Rose kissing another man. It seems Rose is plotting to get rid of her husband in Niagara Falls, make it look like an accident or suicide and run off with the younger man. Pretty soon a body is found and Rose collapses in grief and shock but is George really dead?Cotten tries to do his best with his limited characterisation. A man who suffering from mental stress and knows that his wife is cheating on him and maybe plotting to bump him off. Jean Peters does look sexy when she is allowed to but you just feel that this film had the ingredients to be an interesting and intriguing film in the hands of Alfred Hitchcock armed with a better screenplay. Instead we are left with a cack-handed movie with few thrills.

Famous Film for the Falls and Marilyn Monroe. Director Henry Hathaway showed Periods of Brilliance in a Long Career, Highlighted by a String of Film-Noir's in the Mid-Forties. Here He shows No Restraint in Highlighting two of Nature's Natural Wonders.He spends Equal Enthusiasm showcasing the crashing waterfalls and the curvaceous Monroe in Close-Ups and Long Walking Shots. With both He succeeds in capturing the Undeniable Truth of the Spectacular.This is one of the few Film-Noir Filmed in Technicolor. The Cinematography of Joe MacDonald, no stranger to the Genre, makes it work. The sharp angles and the shadows have much more contrast in B&W but are here Displayed Distinctively and Effectively.The Weakness of the Film is in a rather Standard Script and a couple of Irritating Performances that are so Grating and Over-the-Top that One Wonders how the Director handled His Obligation to let it stand. Max Showalter as a White-Bread-Middle-Class Husband and Don Wilson in a Cartoonish Cringe-Inducement.But Marilyn and Niagara Falls will not be Denied Their Due as Natural Wonders. Joseph Cotton Hot Tempered as MM's Neurotic and Over the Hill Husband tries as He may to capture the attention of the Audience is a Futile Effort, Drowned by all the Gushing Water and Marilyn's Gushing, Overwhelming, Seductive Sensuality.Overall, Jean Peters is a Fabulous Fulcrum to the Film's Grander Elements, manages to impress with it's Calmness and Straight-Laced Appeal. Not much Complexity in the Characterizations or Plot, the Film is an Above Average Display of Two Things that are Anything but Average. Niagara Falls and Marilyn Monroe.

A Film-Noir shot in Technicolor and stars Marilyn Monroe as the femme fatale, NIAGARA kick-starts a banner year for Monroe in 1953, with two even bigger splashes following in the same year, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES and HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, she would become one of the most bankable actress of her time, a sex symbol, an eternal icon.The phenomenal Niagara Falls are maximally deployed through director Henry Hathaway's (TRUE GRIT 1969) efforts, the awe-inspiring scenery, not merely serves as a locale in the film, where our protagonists, two couple, George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe) and Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters) frequently visit (where an off-screen murder takes place), but also functions as a metaphor of George's final doom (from the opening scenes) and a perfect template for the final engaging cliff-hanger.The story is not as convoluted as other film-noir exemplars, Rose is determined to get rid of her jaded husband George, so she plots with her young lover Patrick (Allan) to dispatch him and make it look like an accident near the Falls. While Ray and Polly are wide-eyed honeymooners involved with the plan by happenstance. Rose's plan goes awry with a twist of revealing who is the one being murdered? Thanks to a lame plot-hole which allows the survivor to send the same signal to confuse our comprehension. Only within 5 minutes, the truth will reveal itself, and the film changes its orbit to a standard thriller with a vengeful heart, finally, a man must pay the price of killing the woman he loves.It is interesting for viewers to buy the prerequisite that Monroe plays a heartless schemer, well, she pulls off a certain degree of credibility in the course, which is poles apart from her most well-known screen image, yet, we haven't seen too much wit in her murder plan, neither is her prowess in choosing a right muscle to accomplish the job. When the scale being tipped, she fits more dutifully in the victim niche, where she runs away from a man who is resolute in taking her life. Albeit an unsatisfactory character-building, Monroe takes on every opportunity to parade her appeal, a deadly poison will lead any man to his ruination. When she hums the enchanting theme song KISS (written by Lionel Newman and Haven Gillespie), no man can resist that tantalisation.Jean Peters, is set as the antithetical good girl against Monroe's dangerous attraction, a beauty with no thorns, demure, warmhearted and courageous, a perfect wife (as Howard Hughes would prove that) marries to a rather unappealing man Ray, who is gregarious but wanting any personalities. As if the picture was sending a double-standard message: for a man, even you are as ordinary as Ray, you still can marry a girl like Polly, while, for a woman as gorgeous as Polly, you should settle for a man like Ray, he is a complete dull but at least he is bankable. That leaves a bitter taste, the so-called Hollywood-ian brainwashing of gender inequality.Otherwise, it is an acceptable flick, the vision of the Falls alone can be pleasantly overwhelming, in addition to Monroe's unique magnetism, although a stroke of bathos is rendered charmlessly when she is no longer in the picture. When the boat weighs anchor, its destination is predestined, so is the life or death payoff of the two characters aboard, a formulaic endeavour.