The only thing I really like about John Stahl‘s Leave Her To Heaven (’45) is Leon Shamroy‘s color cinematograohy and Lionel Newman‘s musical score. Otherwise not so much. Gene Tierney‘s pyschotic femme fatale is confounding and affected.
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The only thing I really like about John Stahl‘s Leave Her To Heaven (’45) is Leon Shamroy‘s color cinematograohy and Lionel Newman‘s musical score. Otherwise not so much. Gene Tierney‘s pyschotic femme fatale is confounding and affected.
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